Cultivar

B. ‘Dido’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Dido’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Date of Origin: 1979
Publication Date: 1981
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. ‘Reflections’
Synonyms and Comments: Female parent cited as “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei
ABS No: 828
Publication Reference: ABS;B81 a183; B85 r056

Plant

Plant Habit: Miniature
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. ‘Reflections’

Female parent cited as “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Dido’

Female parent cited as “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. ‘Reflections’

Male parent a species from Sumatra

Female parent

B. ‘Glory of St. Albans’

Two forms exist - Pink and Red. The Japanese call the pink form B. ‘Magatama’ and the red form B. ‘Totenko’

Female parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. unidentified sp.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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