Cultivar
B. ‘Green Peltate’
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Green Peltate’
- Originator
- Hartutiningsih-M. Siregar
- Date of Origin
- 2015
- Publication Date
- 2016
- Place
- Bogor Botanical Gardens, West Java
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- Asia
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. natunaensis
- Male Parent
- B. puspitae
- Synonyms and Comments
- 345/PVHP/2015
- Publication Reference
- BIODIVERSITAS Volume 17, Number 2, October 2016 Pages: 776 -782 “Four new varieties of Begonia from interspecific hybridization Begonia natunaensis C.W.Lin & C.I.Peng × Begonia puspitae Ardi”
Plant
- Description
- Rhizome plant type, plant height (31.5 cm). Single leaf blade, peltate, the base corrugated, leaf shape ovate, upper surface of the leaf color green G 137 A, glossy, leaf color green bottom surface red RP 65 C, single flower, red color RP 62 B. Different characteristics from the parent are peltate leaves, the base corrugated, large leaf size, leaf surface is curved, red flower. Plant stature strong and suitable as an ornamental beautiful leafy potted flowering plant. It flowered for the first time in January 2012. The derivation of the name is based on the unique peltate leaf form with dominant green colour.
- Plant Spread
- Medium 36cm
- Plant Height
- Low 31.5cm
Lineage
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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