Cultivar

B. ‘Lady McElderry’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Lady McElderry’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Publication Date: 2005
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lomita Lady’
Male Parent: B. ‘Sophie Cecile’
Publication Reference: YBG; The Begonian, Jul-Aug 2010
Article References: The Begonian, Jul-Aug 2010
Photo References: Begonian pl. 77:158. 2010; The Begonian, Jul-Aug 2010

Plant

Description: Medium growing superba-type cane. Has deeply cleft leaves that are very dark bronze with silver spots. Blooms well with large clusters of large dark pink flowers. Easy and fuller growing than most superba-types, can be kept compact. Makes a great specimen plant.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lomita Lady’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Lady McElderry’

Female parent

B. ‘Lomita Lady’

Female parent

B. ‘Lana’

Encanto Lana

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. ‘Lady Mary’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Male parent

B. ‘Dumbo’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

B. ‘Sylvia’, commercial name in Australia;

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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