Cultivar
B. ‘Mother’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Mother’
- Originator
- Carl Fisher
- Date of Origin
- 195?s
- Publication Date
- 1953
- Plant Type
- Rex Cultorum
- Publication Reference
- BEG; WBHC-WW
- Article References
- The Begonian Oct 1953 p. 229.
Plant
- Description
- The unusual Begonia 'Mother' by D.S.B. An extraordinary rex begonia viewed recently, growing in the glasshouse of Carl Fisher, measured twenty-four inches across and stood eighteen inches high. You. say, why is that extraordinary? The fact that each medium sized leaf was beautiful in texture and color, plus bearing fully developed small plants having rhizomes measuring one inch in circumference, is extraordinary. We have all noticed at least one of our begonias producing adventitious plantlets on some part of a plant, when grown in a position of high humidity, but this is the regular habit of Begonia 'Mother'. With the leaves continuing to be beautiful, the plant gives a very pleasing effect, as if conscious that motherhood has not detracted from its beauty. The stems or petioles are brown-flushed and covered with white hairs. The medium-sized leaves (approx. 5 x 7) are heavy silver with an irregular brown center zone and a matching margin, approximately three-eighths of an inch wide. The underside of the leaf is flushed dark red. Although Begonia 'Mother' will be sought after as a novelty, it will also rate as an exceptionally beautiful rex begonia. -D.S.B.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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