Cultivar

B. ‘Smoky Topaz’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Smoky Topaz’
Originator: Kit Jeans
Date of Origin: 1980
Publication Date: 1981
Place: Johnsonville
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. un-named rhizomatous cv.
Male Parent: B. ‘Inglewood’
ABS No: 822
Publication Reference: ABS;B81 a142
Article References: The Begonian (49) June 1981, p. 142-3.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Smoky Topaz' No. 822-Begonia unnamed seedling x 'Inglewood' 'Smoky Topaz' Rhizomatous. Lobed, 30" x 5-6" leaves, mottled in greens and browns with a smoky overlay, are glabrous with ciliate margins and have 5 to 6 veins. Petioles are hairy; stipules chartaceous. White to pale pink flowers, borne in cymes on 6" to 10" peduncles in midwinter, are about I" across, with 2 male and 2 female tepals. Capsules are green dotted with pink. The elongated star leaf "with smoky overlay changing to rich chocolate when grown in subdued light" distinguish this new cultivar. Growth is compact. The seed parent originated in cultivation in Australia. B. 'Smoky Topaz' was originated in 1977 by Kit Jeans, Route 1, New Johnsonville, TN 37134; first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1978. Tested by Gloria Quinn, 234 Tallant Dr., Houston, TX. Registered April 1, 1980.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. un-named rhizomatous cv.

Male parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Smoky Topaz’

Female parent

B. un-named rhizomatous cv.

Male 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;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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