Cultivar

B. ‘Blooming Fool’

See B. ‘Orangeade’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Blooming Fool’
Originator: Asmussen
Date of Origin: 1985
Publication Date: 1991
Place: Texas
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Elaine’
Male Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Synonyms and Comments: erroneous name for Orangeade; The male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei; B. ‘Bloomin’ Fool’ syn.
Publication Reference: AL; B94 r220; AUST
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin, Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

erroneous name for Orangeade; The male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei; B. ‘Bloomin’ Fool’ syn.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Blooming Fool’

erroneous name for Orangeade; The male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei; B. ‘Bloomin’ Fool’ syn.

Female parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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