Cultivar

B. ‘Emerald Lacewing’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Emerald Lacewing’
Originator: Paul P. Lowe
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Lake Park, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Chumash’
Male Parent: B. ‘Aries’
ABS No: 344
Publication Reference: ANS;B91 p080;B73 a088;B83 r105
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.

Plant

Description: No. 344-Begonia ('Chumash' X 'Aries') 'Emerald Lacewing' An elongated star-shaped leaf, three inches, eyelashed, emerald green, silky textured, with light green veins, characterizes this rhizomatous begonia originated by Paul P. Lowe, address above, in 1972, and was first distributed in 1973; it first bloomed in the spring of 1973, light pink, on 5-inch stems. Registered Mar. 7, 1973.; Small deeply cut light green leaves, compact. Light pink flowers.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Chumash’

Male parent

B. ‘Aries’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Emerald Lacewing’

Female parent

B. ‘Chumash’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. ‘Aries’

Female parent

B. ‘Norah Bedson’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. strigillosa

B. daedalea Lemaire, Ill. Hort. 7, Misc. :54. 1860; Ill. Hort. 8:pl. 269. 1861. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864.; B. barbana C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:261 1896.; B. tinctoria L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Contr. Gray Herb. 127:29. 1939;

Male parent

B. ‘Leslie Lynn’

Female parent

B. ‘Lexington’

Male parent

B. glandulosa

B. dayi hort. Begonian 14:174, pl. 183. 1947.; B. nigrovenia hort. Linden ex W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 87:pl. 5256. 1861.; B. hidalgensis L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 40:241, pl. 1b–g. 1950. ; B. nigrovenia Regel, Gartenfl. 16:163, pl. 456. 1867.; B. pinetorum A. de Candolle. 1859, Sphalmate.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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