Cultivar

B. ‘MacDaddy’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘MacDaddy’
Originator: Nathan Greenleaf
Date of Origin: 2020
Publication Date: 2023
Place: Phetchabun
Country: Thailand
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. aconitifolia
Male Parent: B. maculata var. maculata
Synonyms and Comments: Etymology: a word play, maculata is the dady (pollen parent);
ABS No: 1174
Publication Reference: Beg 90 p 212 Nov/Dec 2023;
Photo References: Beg 90 p 212 Nov/Dec 2023;

Plant

Plant Spread: 70 cm
Plant Height: 140 cn

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. aconitifolia

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

Etymology: a word play, maculata is the dady (pollen parent);

Ancestry tree

B. ‘MacDaddy’

Etymology: a word play, maculata is the dady (pollen parent);

Female parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. argyrostima Fischer ex Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Sel. :23, pl. 10. 1821.—Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2:626. 1825; B. punctata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot.. ed. 2 1:194. 1840.; B. albo-picta; B. aculeata Walpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; Repert. Bot. Syst. 5:767. 1846. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):354. 1861. [= B. maculata Raddi var. argentea (Van Houtte) A. de Candolle. 1861. — E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):583. 2005.; B. maculata var. argentea (van Houtte ex Klotzsch) A. de Candolle. 1861;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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