Cultivar

B. ‘Splendida Argentea ’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Splendida Argentea ’
Originator: Van Houtte
Date of Origin: 1861
Place: France
Country: France
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. ‘Splendida’
Male Parent: B. xanthina
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Splendida Argentea – Leaves large of a greyish hue, veined with white and tinged with bronze-red, very beautiful. A very ornamental plant, with large elegantly-marked leaves, obliquely heart-shaped; their entire surface, except that traversed by the veins, is of an unbroken silvery green, richly-tinted or bronzed with an under coppery crimson hue, deepening towards the margin, and sprinkled over with short crimson velvety hairs. The underside is of a uniform rich crimson, with strong veins set with crimson hairs. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs. V.26 1860 pg 131-136.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Splendida’

Male parent

B. xanthina

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Splendida Argentea ’

Female parent

B. ‘Splendida’

Female parent

B. ‘Vesuvius’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. xanthina

Etymology: Greek xanthina (yellow) after the flower colour; B. lazuli Linden, Suppl. Cat. Pl. Exot. :2. 1858, nomen nudum. —W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.; B. xanthina W.J. Hooker var. lazuli W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.—C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:644. 1879.; B. picta auct. non J.E. Smith: hort. Jackson ex W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.; B. xanthina W. J. Hooker var. pictifolia W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5102. 1859;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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