Cultivar

B. ‘Pink Surprise’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Pink Surprise’
Originator: Bernard Yorke
Date of Origin: 1975
Publication Date: 1977
Place: Brisbane, Qld.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Sir Percy’
Male Parent: B. ‘Pink Nacre’
Publication Reference: MLT2; B99 r168
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

Description: The leaves on this miniature plant are silvery pink edged dark green, deep pink under. Sprays of pink flowers. Easy.
Plant Habit: Creeping

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Male parent

B. ‘Pink Nacre’

Ancestry tree

Female parent

Female parent

Female parent

B. rotata Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :11. 1853. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864;

Male parent

B. ludicra

B. liebmannii A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):345. 1864. " liebmanni." —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Fieldiana: Bot. 24:174. 1961.; B. reptans Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :5. 1853, non Bentham. 1840.; B. repens Liebmann ex Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. 1:497. 1880 non Lamarck. 1785;

Male parent

B. ‘Speculata’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Pink Nacre’

Female parent

B. conchifolia var. conchifolia

B. scutellata Liebmann Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :9. 1853; B. pumilio Standley, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25:322. 1940. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:43. 1958.; B. warscewitzii Neuman. 1847; B. conchaefolia;

Male parent

B. ‘Pearlii’

B. ‘Pearli’;

Female parent

B. imperialis var. imperialis

B. imperialis Lemaire var. brunnea Lemaire. 1861;

Male parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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