B. ‘Coronata’

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade. Chicago: American Florist Company, [1885-1931] v.13 pt.2 1898 Page 914: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80345 This is a tall. strong, robust growing variety, the stems growing to five feet two inches high within fourteen months, from cuttings. The stems branch very little, unless pinched back. It sends up numerous flowers on erect peduncles, the clusters being nearly evenly cymose, of about fifty male flowers on a truss and nearly as many females. The trusses, when cut last a long time in perfection. It requires plenty of room to grow it well. It is said to have been raised by V. Lemoine, France, and is described in his catalogue No. 12, of 1893, as a novelty, and is a cross between B. carolineifolia and B. polyantha. The stems are stout, upright, fleshy, nodose, green, when young, russet brown when old, bearing, viviparous buds when young, and covered with a russet brown tomentum. Petioles seven inches long, green, red at apex and covered with tomentum. Leaves ten inches wide by fourteen and one-half inches long, dark green intermingled with a yellowish green. Glossy, slightly hairy on the midribs. Under surface light green and hairy on the midribs and veins. Peduncles eight inches long, reddish. Flowers one and one-eighth inches across. Males dipetalous. Females with two, three, four and five divisions. Color a beautiful rose.