Cultivar

B. ‘Peppermint Princess’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Peppermint Princess’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Jumbo Jet’
Male Parent: B. ‘Philipines cane’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Small to medium growing upright with dark green leaves and small white spots. Flower clusters are large and peppermint colored two-toned.
Plant Habit: Full
Plant Height: Low
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent

B. ‘Philipines cane’

Unresolved

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Peppermint Princess’

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

B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Shasta’

Male parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Philipines cane’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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