Cultivar

B. ‘Egrelet’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Egrelet’
Originator: Francis Michelson
Date of Origin: 1961
Publication Date: 1976
Place: Miami, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lettonica’
Male Parent: B. egregia
ABS No: 529
Publication Reference: ABS;B76 a251
Article References: The Begonian (43) June 1976, p. 155-169.

Plant

Description: No. 529 - Begonia (B. 'Lettonica' x B. egregia) 'Egrelet' Fibrous, intermediate, hairy plant was developed in 1961 by F. Michelson (address above). Ovate, oblique leaf is dark green and light green underneath, 3 x 7 in., with serrate margin and red veins with pink hairs. Pale pink flowers, 1 inch, blooms January-March. Registered March 26, 1976.
Plant Height: Medium

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lettonica’

Male parent

B. egregia

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Egrelet’

Female parent

B. ‘Lettonica’

Female 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. nelumbiifolia

B. deryckxiana Lemaire, Hort. Universel 5:355. 1844. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864.; B. hernandiifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Konigel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin:125. 1854 "hernandiaefolia”, non W.J. Hooker. 1852 pro syn. Gireoudia nelumbiifolia Klotzsch. 1854. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864. 1854 non Hooker W.J.,1852; B. peltata Sessé & Mociño, Fl. Mex. ed. 2 :219 . 1894 non Otto & Dietrich. 1841.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Contr. Gray Herb. 154:27, 30. 1945.; B. caudilimba C de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):9. 1919. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:15, pl. 2. 1946;

Male parent

B. egregia

B. petropolitana Glaziou, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 56(mem. 3d):324. 1909, nomen nudum—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:445. 1983.; B. quadrilocularis Brade, Rodriguesia 18:21, pl. 6. 1945;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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