Cultivar
B. ‘Elegans’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Elegans’
- Originator
- Lemoine
- Date of Origin
- 1885
- Place
- France
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Semperflorens
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Gigantea Rosea’
- Publication Reference
- DIEG; WBHC-WW
Plant
- Description
- Wiener illustrirte Garten-Zeitung. Wien W. Frick. jahr. 18 1893: Page 458-60 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52851 (translated using Google translate) B. semperflorens gigantea, B. semperflorens elegans and B. semperflorens ‘sieberiana’ The well-known French breeder Lemoine obtained a considerable deviation by crossing the old B. semperflorens with the B. roezlii, thereby producing a hybrid which branched off the crowded growth of the mother plant, but also the powerful leaves and the larger flowers of the B. roezlii shows. Lemoine B. semperflorens gigantea was named for its properties. Apart from this striking plant, Lemoine has also raised two other hybrids, which are similar to the beautiful Begonia semperflorens gigantea, but differ in their growth and blood color. These are B. semperflorens elegans and B. semperflorens ‘sieberiana’. The former is fiercely rose-red, a fiery-red flower, while the latter showed a very delicate pink color, and also distinguished itself by a somewhat higher growth.
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Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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