Cultivar

B. ‘Frances Kay’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Frances Kay’
Originator: Flaitz
Place: California
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male Parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Synonyms and Comments: B. ‘Francis Kay’;
Publication Reference: K; WBHC-WW; The Begonian, Feb 1970;
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :81. 1980; The Begonian, Feb 1970; The Begonian, Dec 1943;

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: Kay Francis. This also has grown poorly. Erect with leaves that almost suggest those of an Angel "Wing Begonia, brown tinted on reverse, dark olive-green with silver dots.
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

Male parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

B. ‘Francis Kay’;

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Frances Kay’

B. ‘Francis Kay’;

Female parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

B. obliqua auct. non L.:Thunberg,1784; B. evansiana Andrews,1811; B. discolor Brown, R. in Aiton,1813; B. erubescens Leveille,1909; B. sinensis A.de Candolle. var. haemaloneura Franch ex Gagnepain,1919; B. bulbifera hort. ex Steudal, Nom. Bot., 1821.; B. grandis Dryander subsp. grandis Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland. 2007; B. ‘Shukaido’

Male parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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