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Cultivar

B. ‘May Drew’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘May Drew’
Originator: Elsa Fort
Date of Origin: 1956
Place: New Jersey
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Paul Bruant’
Male Parent: B. ‘Reichenheimii’
ABS No: 125
Publication Reference: ABS;B56 a211

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Paul Bruant’

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Male parent

B. ‘Reichenheimii’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘May Drew’

Female parent

B. ‘Paul Bruant’

Male parent cited as “a frutescent (shrubby) species”;

Female parent

B. heracleifolia var. longipila

longipila Lemaire, Ill. Hort. 8:pl. 307. 1861. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; u150?

Male parent

B. unidentified sp.

Male parent

B. ‘Reichenheimii’

Female parent

B. ‘Fuscomaculata’

Female 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. daedalea Lemaire, Ill. Hort. 7, Misc. :54. 1860; Ill. Hort. 8:pl. 269. 1861. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864.; B. barbana C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:261 1896.; B. tinctoria L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Contr. Gray Herb. 127:29. 1939;

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;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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