Cultivar

B. ‘Frances Fickewirth’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Frances Fickewirth’
Originator: Helen Shortt
Date of Origin: 1972
Place: Baldwin Park, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Norah Bedson’
Male Parent: B. Mexican sp.
Synonyms and Comments: Also known as B. ‘Mrs. Frances Fickworth’?
ABS No: 335
Publication Reference: ABS;B73 a088
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.

Plant

Description: No. 335-Begonia ('Nora Bedson' X Mexican Species) ‘Frances Fickewirth' This rhizomatous plant with plain, unequal heart-shaped leaves, 6½ x 5 inches was developed in 1968 and first distributed in 1972 by Helen Shortt, 14701 Los Angeles St., Baldwin Park, CA 91706. The leaf margin is finely toothed hairy, the texture smooth dull, with nine veins. Petioles are red-spotted, thinly-hairy; stipules are triangular keeled and dry quickly. Leaf color pea green, with secondary nerves bordered with maroon. Blooms pink in winter. Available from various growers in 1973. Registered Nov. 26, 1972.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Norah Bedson’

Male parent

B. Mexican sp.

Also known as B. ‘Mrs. Frances Fickworth’?

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Frances Fickewirth’

Also known as B. ‘Mrs. Frances Fickworth’?

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. Mexican sp.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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