Cultivar

B. ‘Professor Wittmack’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Professor Wittmack’
Date of Origin: 1888
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. decora
Male Parent: B. rex
Publication Reference: GA; WBHC-WW

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. decora

Male parent

B. rex

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Professor Wittmack’

Female parent

B. decora

Etymology: after the decorative leaves; B. praeclara King, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 71:66. 1902. —Ridley, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 4:21. 1909; Fl. Malay Penins. 1:863. 1922;

Male parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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