Cultivar

B. ‘John Tonkin’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘John Tonkin’
Originator: Lyla Kilpatrick
Date of Origin: 1987
Publication Date: 1999
Place: Perth, WA
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Male Parent: B. radicans
ABS No: 1087
AABS No: 74
Publication Reference: B99 r166

Plant

Plant Height: Medium 1m

Lineage

2 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

Male parent

B. radicans

Ancestry tree

B. ‘John Tonkin’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. radicans

B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 118:pl. 7219. 1892.; B. procumbens Vellozo,Fl. Flum. icon. 10:pl. 36. “1827". 1831.; B. limminghei Pynaert, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 1:259, pl. 1875.; B. limmingheana Morren, Belgique Hort. 16:21, pls. 3–4. 1866.; B. liminghi hort. Wein. Ill. Garten–Zeit, 10:426, pl. 1885.; B. dubia Vellozo, Fl. Flum. icon. 10: pl. 42. “1827" . 1831, nomen nudum.; descr. Arch. Mus. Nat. Rio de Janeiro 5:405. 1881, non Haworth. 1819.; B. sandersii hort. Kew ex A. de Candolle.1864.; B. fritz-muelleri Brade,Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro Bot. n.s. 1:12, pl. 3. 1944.; B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker var. scandens hort. ex fotsch,1933.; B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker. var. splendens hort. ex Fotsch,1933.; B. coccinea W. J. Hooker var. A. de Liming Regel, Gartenflora 17:194. 1868.; B. coccinea W. J. Hooker var. Comte Alfred de Limering Regel, Gartenflora 17:191, pl. 584.1868.; B. limminghei hort ex Gentil, Pl. Cult. Serres Jard, Bot. Brux. : 33. 1907, non visus.

Descendants

2 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Convention 91’

Male parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

As male parent

B. ‘Magic Moment’

Female parent: B. ‘Silver Mist’

Culture

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