Cultivar

B. ‘Careless Whisper’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Careless Whisper’
Originator: Greg Sytch
Date of Origin: 2000
Place: Florida
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Thick Stem
Female Parent: B. ‘Cowardly Lion’
Male Parent: B. sericoneura
Publication Reference: PBL;B00 p178;YBG

Plant

Description: Large wavy double spiraled olive-green leaves, red stems, white flowers.

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Cowardly Lion’

Male parent

B. sericoneura

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Careless Whisper’

Female parent

B. ‘Cowardly Lion’

Female parent

B. carrieae

Male parent

B. ‘Bokit’

B. ‘Bowkit’

Female parent

B. ‘Bowtique’

poss. sport of Dark Forest

Male parent

B. ‘Tiger Kitten’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. sericoneura

B. lanuginosa A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:131. 1859. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:468. 1984.; B. pilifera A.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):337. 1864.; B. nicaraguensis Standley, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 4:237.1929.; B. biolleyi C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:263. 1896.; B. lindleyana auct. non Walpers: L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:11, pl. 2. 1946. —K. Burt–Utley, Phytologia 54:488. 1984.; B. hypolipara Sandwith. 1931.; B. U172; B. U173; B. U253;

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Thistle’

Male parent: B. unknown

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

No populated fields in this section.