Cultivar
B. ‘Raspberry Swirl’
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Raspberry Swirl’
- Originator
- Leslie Woodriff
- Date of Origin
- 1979
- Publication Date
- 1982
- Place
- McKinleyville, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rex Cultorum
- Female Parent
- B. ‘rex cv.’
- Male Parent
- B. hemsleyana var. hemsleyana
- ABS No
- 846
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B82 a158;B95 r191
- Article References
- The Begonian (49) July 1982, p. 86-87.
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Raspberry Swirl' No. 846-Begonia unnamed rex cultivar x hemsleyana 'Raspberry Swirl' Rex Cultorum group; rhizomatous, erect. Double-spiraled, lobed, 6" x 50" leaves have a black center, raspberry zone, silver zone, and dark-green and black edge. They are smooth-surfaced with 10 main veins, light-red petioles, and red stipules. A spiraled sister seedling to B. 'Hula Skirt' (ABS Reg. No. 841), B. 'Raspberry Swirl' does not have the compound leaves of B. 'Hula Skirt'. Originated in 1979 by Leslie Woodriff (address above); no bloom to date; first distributed in 1980. Published in Thompson and Thompson, Begonias, 1981, pp. 182, 321. Registered June 29, 1982.
- Stem Type
- Upright
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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