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Cultivar

B. ‘Sophie's Choice’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Sophie's Choice’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. ‘Jumbo Jet’
Male Parent: B. ‘Sophie Cecile’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Plant Height: Tall
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

×

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Sophie's Choice’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Shasta’

Male parent

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

B. ‘Sylvia’, commercial name in Australia;

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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