Cultivar

B. ‘Pet’

Photos

1 photo

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Pet’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1939
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Odorata Alba’
Male Parent: B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’
Publication Reference: K; WBHC-WW;
Article References: The Begonian (7) February 1940, p. 4;
Photo References: The Begonian, Feb 1940;

Plant

Description: Begonia ‘Pet’ ‘Pet’ is the result of crossing the small double Semperflorens ‘Bijou de Jardine’ and the fragrant white B. odorata alba, introduced from the West Indies in 1816. Leslie Woodriff of Inglewood, California, is responsible for this hybrid which retains the everblooming character of Semperflorens. Pet produces no seed but can be propagated from stem and leaf cuttings. It is vigorous and free-flowering bearing large clusters of pink flowers, the individual blooms being larger than those of B. odorata alba.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Odorata Alba’

Male parent

B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Pet’

Female parent

B. ‘Odorata Alba’

B. ‘Dearest Mae’; B. nitida?;

Male parent

B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’

Female parent

B. semperflorens

B. cucullata Willdenow var. cucullata, 1805;

Male parent

B. minor

u028; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: l'Héritier, Stirp. Nov. 4:95, pl. 46. 1 788 ; nitida Dryander in Aiton, Hort. Kew 3:352. 1789. ; lucida Paxton, Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13,77. 1847, nomen sub iconis sphalmate pro nitida Dryander. 1789. —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:19. 1911 [= odorata Willdenow. 1814, Sphalmate]; in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:10, 19. 1911 . ; suavolens auct. non Loddiges: Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :146. 1855. ; speciosa hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. IV 6:350. 1856 . ; pulchra herb. Schreb. ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 293. 1864. ; nitida Dryander var. discolor Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:354. 1836. ; nitida Dryander var. speciosa R egel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ;34. 18 56. ; nitida Dryander in Paxton’s Mag. Bot. 13:77, pl. 1847.; speciosa hort. Van Houtte ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):293. 1864 .; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: Schneevoogt. 1793.; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: Klotzsch, Ind. Sem. hort. Berol., app. :1.1856.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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