Cultivar
B. ‘Erecta Atrorubra Nana’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Erecta Atrorubra Nana’
- Originator
- Fournier
- Date of Origin
- 1874
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Publication Reference
- RH; WBHC-WW
- Article References
- Revue Horticole, Anne (1890)
Plant
- Description
- Revue Horticole, Anne (1890) Begonia erecta atrorubra nana: The abundant varieties of Begonias are so numerous today that the choice becomes difficult, especially for the amateur who only has a relatively small garden. However, one is never taken aback in fact of varieties of an incontestable value, and even of superior merit. It would be a mistake to believe that the plant of which we speak comes back in the "high novelties": it is one of those whose merit does not allow forgetting, an acquaintance which, although already old, has lost nothing of her beauty; it is, in a word, a Tuberous Begonia, and perhaps even, in this genus, one of the first hybrids that has been perfectly fixed. This hybrid is the Begonia erecta atrorubra nana, which, by all of its decorative characteristics, certainly has no competitor. Obtained in 1874, in Vesinet, by Mr. Fournier (Fernand), it enjoyed, of its appearance, of a well-deserved vogue, that it has, moreover, not yet lost, and the Vilmorin house, which at that time, he had considered it an off-line plant, continuing to wear it on his catalog. Although the collection of tuberous Begonias is now varied and varied, this pretty little Begonia, which we still cultivate, differs in appearance from all the other varieties with large flowers, and we can never recommend it too much. It is relatively very dwarf, chunky, compact, and is especially suitable for forming borders of rare elegance. Its flowering is very abundant and is renewed without interruption during the beautiful season. The flowers, small and very numerous, are of a very dark purple, having in the center a bundle of etamines of the purest yellow which slices admirably on the bottom. This plant is of the easiest culture, like that of all tuberous Begonias that we possess. In addition to the tubers, which are put in vegetation at the end of March and even in the course of April, the seeds are harvested in the second fortnight of February, which it gives very easily. and which faithfully reproduce this perfectly fixed type. People who would like to buy either tubers or seeds of this interesting hybrid, can contact the Vilmorin house in Paris. - Eug. Vallerand.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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