Cultivar

B. ‘xchungii’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘xchungii’
Originator: C.-I Peng & S.M.Ku, Bot. Stud. (Taipei)
Date of Origin: 1994
Publication Date: 2009
Place: Nantou County, Luku Township, Sitou, National Taiwan University Experimental Forest, c. 1200m; Arunachal Pradesh ca. 1800’
Country: Taiwan; India
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. longifolia
Male Parent: B. palmata var. palmata
Synonyms and Comments: B. U574
Publication Reference: Bot. Stud. (Taipei) 50(2): 241. 2009; Rekha Morris. Notes. 2009.
Photo References: Bot. Stud. (Taipei) 50(2): 241 (-250; figs., map). 2009

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. longifolia

Male parent

B. palmata var. palmata

B. U574

Ancestry tree

B. ‘xchungii’

B. U574

Female parent

B. longifolia

Etymology: after the long leaves; “The berry begonia”;B. U429?; B. inflata C. B. Clarke in J. D. Hooker,Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:636. 1879.; B. crassirostris Irmscher. 1939.; B. trisulcata (A. de Candolle.) Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A):142 . 1894.; B. roxburghii auct. non A. de Candolle: Ridley, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 4:20. 1909.; B. tricornis Ridley, J. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Straits Br. 75:35. 1917.;B. aptera Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30:122. 1911, nec Blume. 1827, nec Roxburgh. 1832, nec Decaisne. 1834. —Gagnepain, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 25:282. 1919. [= hayatae Gagnepain. 1919. ] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:184. 2007.;B. aptera auct. non Blume: L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:467. 1984.; Phytologia 55:112. 1984.[= B. hayatae Gagnepain. 1919. ] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:184. 2007.; B. brachyptera Hayata in Kawakami, List Pl. Form. :45.1910, nomen nudum. —Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan, 3:796. 1977. [= hayatae Gagnepain. 1919. ] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:184. 2007.

Male parent

B. palmata var. palmata

laciniata Roxburgh ex Wallich, Numer. List: 129, no. 3678A. 1831, nomen nudum. ; laciniata Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 3:649. 1832.; u026; roylei K. Koch, Berliner Allg. Gartenzeitung 10:75;u567; U477 u

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Cultural Requirements: Cool growing conditions, moist environment