Cultivar

B. ‘Fantasy’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Fantasy’
Originator: Knecht
Date of Origin: 1940
Publication Date: 1950
Place: California
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. cathayana
Male Parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Publication Reference: BEG; WBHC-WW
Article References: American Horticultural Society, October 1952, pg. 237-259; Concerning Rex Begonia, by B. Y. Morrison

Plant

Description: American Horticultural Society, October 1952, pg. 237-259; Concerning Rex Begonia, by B. Y. Morrison The following descriptions are recorded from observation notes made of the living collection during 1951-1952: Fantasy. Rather large here, with elongated and somewhat lobed leaves with marked pattern. The center is small and very dark green surrounded by a silver zone that extends to tip of leaf, this in turn surrounded by a sage yellow zone and irregularly margined in brownish-green. Petioles reddish.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. cathayana

Male parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Fantasy’

Female parent

B. cathayana

Etymology: from the old English name “Cathay” for China; B. bowringiana hort. Sander, Gard. Chron. III 33:245, pl.. 1903, non Champion. 1852. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:524. 1939;

Male parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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