Cultivar

B. ‘Boomer’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Boomer’
Originator: Mabel Corwin
Date of Origin: 1979
Publication Date: 1987
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Thick Stem
Female Parent: B. u003
Male Parent: B. reniformis
Synonyms and Comments: George Fix; male parent B. vitifolia?.
ABS No: 919
Publication Reference: B00 p178; B88 a209; B87 a095,a137; ABS; B98 r013; The Begonian, Sep-Oct 1987;
Photo References: The Begonian, Sep-Oct 1987;

Plant

Plant Height: Medium

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. U003

Male parent

B. reniformis

George Fix; male parent B. vitifolia?.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Boomer’

George Fix; male parent B. vitifolia?.

Female parent

B. U003

B. soli-mutata; Brazil species No. 3

Male parent

B. reniformis

huberi C. de Candolle in Huber, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 1:315. 1901. ; inermis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76:39. 1953. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:444. 1983. Fig.31.17. = reniformis Dryander. 1791, sphalmate. [I think this is neither Begonia vitifolia Schott, nor Begonia reniformis Dryander, J. Golding.]; longipes W. J. Hooker Bot. Mag. 57:pl. 3001. 1830.; palmifolia hort. Buxton,1932; vitifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; truncata; grandis Otto ; elatior hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2, 1:193. 1 840. ; vitifolia var. bahiensis; vitifolia var. grandis; longipes W. J. Hooker var. laticordata A. de Candolle in Martius,Fl. Bras. $(1):368. 1861.; vitifolia hort. Berol ex Klotzsch. 1855.

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Caribbean Prince’

As male parent

B. ‘Angulowe’

Female parent: B. ‘Rubacon’

B. ‘Convulata’

Female parent: B. ‘Rubacon’

Culture

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