Cultivar

B. ‘Smoke Rings’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Smoke Rings’
Originator: Kit Jeans
Date of Origin: 1978
Publication Date: 1981
Place: Johnsonville
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Inglewood’
Male Parent: B. unknown
ABS No: 826
Publication Reference: ABS;B81 a142
Article References: The Begonian (49) June 1981, p. 142-3.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Smoke Rings' No. 826-Begonia 'Inglewood' x unknown 'Smoke Rings' Rhizomatous. Apple-green, 5" x 3"" leaves with smoky, ciliate margins and smoky flecks on the 6 veins are obliquely ovate, angulate, acuminate, and succulent with a quilted appearance, on a compact ~plant. Petioles are hairy; stipules, chartaceous. Pink, 2-tepaled, 1" flowers with red-flecked ovaries are carried in forked cymes on 10"-12" peduncles in the spring. Originated by Kit Jeans (address above) in 1978; first bloomed in 1980; first distributed in 1980. Tested by Thelma 0' Reilly, 10942 Sunray Place, La Mesa, CA 92041. Registered July 22, 1980.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Male parent

B. unknown

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Smoke Rings’

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. manicata var. manicata

B. U171; B. U179; B. lepidota Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):388. 1861; B. schizolepis Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853; B. robustior Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:155. 1950.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. manicata hort. Paris ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 11:35. 1843. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864;

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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