Cultivar

B. ‘Curly Fireflush’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Curly Fireflush’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1948
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. ‘Fireflush’
Publication Reference: LW; B87 r014;
Photo References: Begonias, Misono 1974: 109 (176);

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Fireflush’

Male parent

Not recorded

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Curly Fireflush’

Female parent

B. ‘Fireflush’

B. ‘Bettina Rothschild’; B. ‘Bethiana Rothschild’; B. ‘Fire Flush’;

Female parent

B. muricata

u427?; tuberosa Lamarck, Encyc. 1:393. 178 5, nomen superfluum. ; rubra Blume, Enum. Pl. Javae 1:96. 1 827. ; saxatilis Blume, Enum. Pl. Javae 1:95. 1827. ; robusta Blume var. rubra (A. de Candolle) Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A):146. 1894.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:471. 1984.; forbesii Vuijck ex Koorders, Exkursionsflora Java 2:649. 1912, pro syn. muricata Blume. 1853.; glabra; rumphii Vuijck ex Koorders, Exkursionsflora Java 2:649. 1912.

Male parent

B. annulata

griffithii W. J. Hooker, 1857. ; picta hort. ex Henderson, Ill. Bouquet, 1 :sub, pl. 11, 1 857-1859, non J. E. Smith. 1805.; barbata Wallich, Num. List 129, no. 3679. 1831, nomen nudum, Wallich ex A. de Candolle. Prodr. 15(1):348. 1864. —Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 78:191. 1959.

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Silver Firecolor’

Male parent: B. versicolor

As male parent

B. ‘Green Pastures’

Female parent: B. ‘Pink Lady’

B. ‘Riverside Benny’

Female parent: B. ‘Pink Lady’

Culture

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