Cultivar

B. ‘Lady Vanderwilt’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Lady Vanderwilt’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2001i
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lomita Lady’
Male Parent: B. ‘Sophie Cecile’
Publication Reference: BTW;YBG
Photo References: Begonian pl. 77:148.2010

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lomita Lady’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Lady Vanderwilt’

Female parent

B. ‘Lomita Lady’

Female parent

B. ‘Lana’

Encanto Lana

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. ‘Lady Mary’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Male parent

B. ‘Dumbo’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

B. ‘Sylvia’, commercial name in Australia;

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Comments: One of at least six different cultivars named in honor of Julie Vanderwilt (1945-2021), a cherished Begonia enthusiast and an active member of the American Begonia Society from Santa Barbara, CA. Ms. Vanderwilt was known for her open and friendly personality, her dedication to community in many different forms, and her IT skills which led to the first iteration of the American Begonia Society’s website and she also administered ‘The Yahoo Group’ which for a decade or more was the primary interactive chat site for Begonias in the early 2000’s.