Cultivar

B. ‘Frances Lyons’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Frances Lyons’
Originator: Belva Nelson Kusler
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Siren, Wi.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Male Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Synonyms and Comments: B. ‘Frances Lyon’
ABS No: 379
Publication Reference: ABS; B74 a043;
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89;
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :18. 1980; Begonias, Misono 1974: 53 (73);

Plant

Description: No. 379 - Begonia (B. 'Lenore Olivier x B. dregei) 'Frances Lyons' Wavy, satiny, light-green leaves, with drooping clusters of peach-pink flowers characterize this small, compact cane originated by Belva N. Kusler, address above, in 1961; it first bloomed in 1962, and was first distributed in 1963; name appeared in Jan. 1967, Begonian 34: 10. Leaves are forest-green above, frosty-moss green below, oblique, ovate, cordate, sharp acute, 6½ x 3 in.; margin dentate undulate; texture coriaceous, satiny; veins pinnate evident, oblique to petiole which is ¾", terete glabrous; stipules narrow elliptic caducous. Flowers all 12 months, 11/4 x 11/4", on 6" stem. Registered Sept. 22, 1973.
Plant Height: Low

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. ‘Frances Lyon’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Frances Lyons’

B. ‘Frances Lyon’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.

As male parent

B. ‘Franccerna’

Female parent: B. ‘Corallina de Lucerna’

B. ‘Hashimoto Pink Redy’

Female parent: B. ‘Lucerna’

B. ‘Mrs. Hashimoto’

Female parent: B. ‘Corallina de Lucerna’

Culture

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