Cultivar

B. ‘Irish Coffee’

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Irish Coffee’
Originator: Kit Jeans
Date of Origin: 1980
Place: Johnsonville
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Inglewood’
Male Parent: B. ‘Helene Jaros’
ABS No: 825
Publication Reference: ABS
Article References: The Begonian (49) June 1981, p. 142-3.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Irish Coffee' No. 825-Begonia 'Inglewood' x 'Helene Jaros' 'Irish Coffee' Rhizomatous with creeping rhizome. Copper-coffee-colored, 4" x 3", cleft, elongated star leaves are succulent, 5 veined, glabrous except for ciliate margins. Petioles are hairy and red-dotted; stipules, chartaceous. Pink, 2-tepaled, I" flowers with red-speckled ovaries on females are borne above the foliage in winter in forked cymes on 10"-12" peduncles. The succulent, twisting copper leaves make the cultivar easily recognizable. Originated by Kit Jeans (address above) in 1978; first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1980. Tested by Elaine Ross, 2113 Walker Drive, Westlake, LA 70669. Registered July 22, 1980.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Male parent

B. ‘Helene Jaros’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Irish Coffee’

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

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;

Male parent

B. ‘Helene Jaros’

Female parent

B. ‘Chumash’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. ‘Bow-Joe’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

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