Cultivar
B. ‘Dreamtime’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Dreamtime’
- Originator
- Hazel Burley
- Date of Origin
- 1976
- Publication Date
- 1981
- Place
- Brisbane, Qld.
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Asia
- Plant Type
- Trailing-Scandent
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Schertzo’
- Male Parent
- B. radicans
- ABS No
- 816
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B81 a121
- Article References
- The Begonian (49) April 1981 p 98-99.
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Dreamtime' No. 816-B. 'Schertzo' x B. procumbens (syn. limmingheana) 'Dreamtime' Trailing, with stems 2' long, reddish nodes 1" apart. New leaves are reddish brown shading to pale brown-green around the petiole, green at the margin above and reddish between the 6 raised veins below. Thicker than average, the leaves are almost ovate, 3" x 2”, with entire margin and with satiny surface slightly puckered between indented veins above. Petioles are reddish shading into green, up to 1 ½” long; stipules are clear, fleshy, sheathing, then drying before falling off. Flowers, on 5" peduncles in summer, are pink, the males 2-tepaled, the females falling before opening. Originated in 1976 by Hazel Burley (address above); first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1978. Tested by Bernard Yorke and Mickey Meyer (as above). Registered March 27, 1980.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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