Cultivar
B. ‘Cinnabarina Albo-vittata’
Photos
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Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Cinnabarina Albo-vittata’
- Date of Origin
- 1892
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Publication Reference
- N; WBHC-WW
- Article References
- L'Illustration Horticole, v. 39 (1892)
Plant
- Description
- L'Illustration Horticole, v. 39 (1892) B. Cinnabarina var. albo-vittata: Here comes a new series in the tuberous Begonia, considered today as hybrids arising from a group of species introduced successively in the European cultures. These new hybrids have inflorescences in which the variegation plays the main role. The flower of the Illustration represents the plant which obtained a first-class certificate at one of the last meetings at the Casino of Ghent. She was exhibited by sowers MM. Blancquaert and Vermeiren, breeders of brilliant varieties in the genus Begonia. Today there are among the single flowers, variations of all sorts in terms of the color and size of the perianth segments. The transformations, however, are infinitely more remarkable in the full flowers. In many of these, the floral characters have completely disappeared, and the flowers themselves have separated as pleasure from the primordial typical forms. It is hard to recognize them anymore. Another noteworthy fact about the variations produced in certain species, which have been subjected for some time to the cultivation process, is that, as soon as we sing, there is a disturbance in the fixity of a species, immediately of the shaking loose of genetics reported on several points at once, as if nature needed to provide immediate proof of its unity. Such is the case for the variegation of our image. In fact, this variegation is also reported at the establishment of Benary, Erfurt, as we have described in the Horticultural Illustration of 1891, p. 99. We added that it is to cry that the Begonia will give all the quirks that we meet in the plumed carnations. Messrs. Blancquaert and Vermeiren certainly reserving us other surprises with their Begonias; they go on to relax their crossing trials by working on elite flowers using pollen from first-rate plants. The examination of the flowers of the plant opposite shows the identity of the flower characters, the only ones admitted in botany, of these flowers with those of Begonia cinnabarina Hooker, a species which was introduced from Bolivia to England and which flowered for the first time at MM. Henderson, towards the end of 1848. There is no information to indicate that the species B. cinnabarina is part of this plant’s hybrid origin. - Em R.
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Descendants
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