Cultivar

B. ‘Margaret P. Holmes’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Margaret P. Holmes’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Date of Origin: 1984
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Mallet
Female Parent: B. solananthera
Male Parent: B. ‘Margaritacea’
Synonyms and Comments: Male parent any of three possible parents with the same name.
Publication Reference: MLT2

Plant

Description: Rounded dark purple-rose leaves, deep red under. Medium pink flowers.
Plant Habit: Cane-like

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. solananthera

Male parent

B. ‘Margaritacea’

Unresolved

Male parent any of three possible parents with the same name.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Margaret P. Holmes’

Male parent any of three possible parents with the same name.

Female parent

B. solananthera

B. integerrima Tebbitt, Begonias 5:158. 2005. has been wrongly identified as B. solanathera A. de Candolle in general use. Both are very similar plants but B. solanthera has dense hairs on its peduncles and main veins of the lower leaf surfaces whereas there are none on B. integerrima.

Male parent

B. ‘Margaritacea’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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