Cultivar

B. ‘Herbert Kennison’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Herbert Kennison’
Originator: Shirley Lund
Date of Origin: 1978
Publication Date: 1978
Place: Indiana
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Agnes Kennison’
Synonyms and Comments: Cited as a sport from the female parent
ABS No: 667
Publication Reference: ABS;B78 a289

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Agnes Kennison’

Male parent

Not recorded

Cited as a sport from the female parent

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Herbert Kennison’

Cited as a sport from the female parent

Female parent

B. ‘Agnes Kennison’

Female parent

B. ‘Erythrophylla’

B. ‘Feastii’; Known as the “Beefsteak” begonia.

Female parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Male parent

B. manicata var. manicata

B. U171; B. U179; B. lepidota Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):388. 1861; B. schizolepis Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853; B. robustior Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:155. 1950.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. manicata hort. Paris ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 11:35. 1843. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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