Species
B. masoniana
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. masoniana
- Author
- Irmscher ex Ziesenh.
- Publication Date
- 1959
- Date of Origin
- 1952
- Place
- Guangxi;
- Habitat
- On limestone slopes ca. 100-300 m. alt.
- Country
- China; N Vietnam
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Coelocentrum
- Chr 2n
- 30
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;
- Reference
- Begonian 26:202, 231. 1959.—R. Ziesenhenne, Begonian 38:52. 1971. — Ching-I Peng, Shin-Ming Ku & Wai- Chao Leong, Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin.46,: 252-3, pl.8. 2005. 1999. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:185-6. 2007; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:180-81. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 199, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p226, 2017;
- Photo References
- Murotani, Begonia in Colour :131. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pls.145, 146. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 199, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong; Chen, Begonia of China: p226-7, 2017; The Begonian, Oct 1960; The Begonian, Sep 1966; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 88 (135); Beg 90 p 53 Mar/Apr 2023; Beg 91 p 62 -64 Mar/Apr 2024;
Plant
- Description
- Allied with B. variegata
- Stem Type
- Acaulescent, rhizome
Lineage
62 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;
Descendants
62 recorded children
As female parent
45
Male parent: B. plebeja
Male parent: B. u388
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. deliciosa
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Silver Jewell’
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. ‘Cleopatra’
Male parent: B. ‘Cleopatra’
Male parent: B. ‘Cleopatra’
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. goegoensis
Male parent: B. 388
Male parent: B. u388
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. 388
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. deliciosa
Male parent: B. ‘Green Frills’
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. deliciosa
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Silver Jewell’
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Pebble Lane’
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Male parent: B. ‘Silver Jewell’
As male parent
17
Female parent: B. ferox
Female parent: B. ‘White Imperialis’
Female parent: B. Tuberhybrida cv.
Female parent: B. decora
Female parent: B. thiemei
Female parent: B. subnummularifolia
Female parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Female parent: B. liuyanii
Female parent: B. pustulata
Female parent: B. ‘Beatrice Haddrell’
Female parent: B. goegoensis
Female parent: B. solananthera
Female parent: B. subnummularifolia
Female parent: B. ‘Su Go Go’
Female parent: B. ‘Su Go Go’
Female parent: B. melanobullata
Female parent: B. versicolor
Culture
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