Cultivar

B. ‘Red Kilt’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Red Kilt’
Originator: Mickey Meyer
Date of Origin: 1974
Publication Date: 1986
Place: Tathra, NSW.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Sir Percy’
Male Parent: B. unknown
ABS No: 899
Publication Reference: ABS;B86 a108;B86 d108
Article References: The Begonian (53) July 1986, p. 108.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Red Kilt' No. 899-Begonia 'Sir Percy' x unknown 'Red Kilt' Rhizomatous with erect rhizomes and showy wine-colored, smooth, semi glossy 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" leaves with sparsely serrate margin and 5 main veins. Pink flowers rise high above the plant on 7" peduncles from late winter to summer. The male flowers have 2 tepals and the females 4. Originated in 1974 by Mickey Meyer (address above); first bloomed in 1976; first distributed in 1977. Tested by Hazel Burley, Queensland, Australia. Registered May 9, 1986.
Stem Type: Erect

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Male parent

B. unknown

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. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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