Cultivar

B. ‘Prince Charming’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Prince Charming’
Originator: Elsie Frey
Date of Origin: 1942
Place: Santa Barbara, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. cathayana
Male Parent: B. ‘Comtesse Louise d’Erdody’
Publication Reference: B71 r201; A.B.Graf: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants Hardcover, 1978.
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. cathayana

Male parent

B. ‘Comtesse Louise d’Erdody’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Prince Charming’

Female parent

B. cathayana

Etymology: from the old English name “Cathay” for China; B. bowringiana hort. Sander, Gard. Chron. III 33:245, pl.. 1903, non Champion. 1852. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:524. 1939;

Male parent

B. ‘Comtesse Louise d’Erdody’

Comtesse Louise Erdody

Female parent

B. ‘Alexandre von Humboldt’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Argentea Cupreata’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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