Cultivar

B. ‘Caribbean Prince’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Caribbean Prince’
Originator: Tim Anderson
Publication Date: 2001
Place: Florida
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Boomer’
Publication Reference: BEG;B00 p165; B00 d240; B01 r207

Plant

Description: Light green leaves with a rhizomatous growth habit. This easy, vigorous grower makes a full compact plant and an outstanding hanging basket.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Boomer’

Male parent

Not recorded

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Caribbean Prince’

Female parent

B. ‘Boomer’

George Fix; male parent B. vitifolia?.

Female parent

B. U003

B. soli-mutata; Brazil species No. 3

Male 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.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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