Cultivar

B. ‘Stash’

Photos

1 photo

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Stash’
Originator: Mrs. Adam Sibiskie
Date of Origin: 1961
Publication Date: 1962
Place: Norwalk, Ct
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Templinii’
Male Parent: B. ‘Bow-Nigra’
ABS No: 178
Publication Reference: ABS; B63 a116; crc-p; The Begonian, Jan 1970;
Article References: The Begonian (37) Jan 1970, p. 3.
Photo References: The Begonian, Jan 1970;

Plant

Description: B. 'Stash' (registered No. 178) The following is reprinted from the description printed in the June 1963 Begonian. In 1961 Mrs. Adam Sibiskie of Norwalk, Connecticut had the unusual experience of obtaining a pod of viable seed from her B. 'Templini' which she had pollenated from B. 'Bow Nigra'. To be sure of her identification she took the B. 'Templini' and a number of the seedlings to Logee's in Danielson and there was encouraged to name and register some of them. This star rhizomatous had dark green leaves with lighter veins and. a distinctive lacy pattern of black over half the leaf. Underneath the light green surface has similar red markings. The plant is small but husky. It has long white hairs on the petioles and leaf margins. Anita Sickman reports that she received a start of this plant in April 1968 and has propagated it many times. She finds that its distinct leaf pattern is easily recognized from any point in her greenhouse. It propagates easily from a leaf much like one of its parents B. 'Bow Nigra'. Anita Sickman says "Every time I look at B. 'Stash' I am reminded of the generosity of its hybridizer, I enjoy growing it, what more can one ask of a Begonia?

Lineage

7 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Templinii’

Male parent

B. ‘Bow-Nigra’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Stash’

Female parent

B. ‘Templinii’

B. ‘Templin’;

Female parent

B. ‘Phyllomaniaca’

B. ‘Phyllomaniaca Hybrida’;

Female parent

B. incarnata var. incarnata

B. insignis Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 11: .1826-28, non visus ; Bot. Mag. 56:pl. 2900. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. martiana auct. non Link & Otto: Schlechtendal, Linnaea 5:604. 1830. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. ciliata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:193. 1840, non Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. 1825, pro syn. B. insignis Graham. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. aucibifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :122. 1854—A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. subpeltata hort. ex Regel, Gartenfl. 15:358. 1866, non Wight. 1852;

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. ‘Bow-Nigra’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. nigricans