Cultivar

B. ‘Varsity’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Varsity’
Originator: Bernard Yorke
Date of Origin: 1980
Place: Brisbane, Qld.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. reniformis
Male Parent: B. ‘Rio’
Synonyms and Comments: Female parent cited as (vitifolia var. grandis)
Publication Reference: QBS

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. reniformis

Male parent

B. ‘Rio’

Unresolved

Female parent cited as (vitifolia var. grandis)

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Varsity’

Female parent cited as (vitifolia var. grandis)

Female parent

B. reniformis

huberi C. de Candolle in Huber, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 1:315. 1901. ; inermis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76:39. 1953. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:444. 1983. Fig.31.17. = reniformis Dryander. 1791, sphalmate. [I think this is neither Begonia vitifolia Schott, nor Begonia reniformis Dryander, J. Golding.]; longipes W. J. Hooker Bot. Mag. 57:pl. 3001. 1830.; palmifolia hort. Buxton,1932; vitifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; truncata; grandis Otto ; elatior hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2, 1:193. 1 840. ; vitifolia var. bahiensis; vitifolia var. grandis; longipes W. J. Hooker var. laticordata A. de Candolle in Martius,Fl. Bras. $(1):368. 1861.; vitifolia hort. Berol ex Klotzsch. 1855.

Male parent

B. ‘Rio’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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