Cultivar
B. ‘Meadowlark’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Meadowlark’
- Originator
- Goldie Frost
- Date of Origin
- 1981
- Publication Date
- 1986
- Place
- Garden Grove, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Leopon’
- Male Parent
- B. carrieae
- ABS No
- 914
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B87 a135;B86 d162
- Article References
- The Begonian (53) Nov. 1986, p. 162-3
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Meadowlark' No. 914-Begonia 'Leopon' x carrieae 'Meadowlark' Rhizomatous with yellowish green, brown-marked, quilted leaves and pink flowers. Leaf blades are 8" x 6", shallowly lobed and serrate, with 7 main veins and short hairs on upper and lower surfaces. The yellow green upper surface is dotted with many brown spots and edged in brown; veins are red underneath. Slender petioles are 12" long and very white-hairy; stipules are not persistent. Originated in 1981 by Goldie Frost (address above); first bloomed in 1982; first distributed in 1982. Tested by Dorothy Behrends of Encinitas, CA. Name published in Mildred L. Thompson, Begonias: 1984 Update, p. 21. Registered Aug. 9, 1986.
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Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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