Cultivar

B. ‘Jeanne Jones’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Jeanne Jones’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Publication Date: 2000
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. ‘Jumbo Jet’
Male Parent: B. ‘Sophie Cecile’
ABS No: 974
Publication Reference: ABS;B00 ap087r129;YBG
Photo References: 2002,91

Plant

Description: Many clusters of large pink flowers. Deeply cut satiny black leaves, silver spotted, red backed.
Plant Habit: Compact and full
Plant Height: Medium to Tall 1.5m
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Jeanne Jones’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male 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

Female parent

Male parent

Male parent

B. ‘Sylvia’, commercial name in Australia;

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;