Cultivar

B. ‘Solid Silver’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Solid Silver’
Originator: J. Nisbet
Date of Origin: 1948
Place: Connecticut
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. hatacoa var. hatacoa
Male Parent: B. ‘President Carnot’
Publication Reference: NIS; WBHC-WW; 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

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Male parent

B. ‘President Carnot’

Unresolved

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Solid Silver’

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Male parent

B. ‘President Carnot’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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