Cultivar

B. ‘Valor’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Valor’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2003
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous - distinctive foliage
Female Parent: B. masoniana
Male Parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Very full growing with medium sized lightly textured leaves. Leaves are deeply lobed medium to dark green leaves which turn red and maroon in stronger light. Easy to grow and showy. Flowers are red on upright spikes.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. masoniana

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Valor’

Female parent

B. masoniana

Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Male parent

B. deliciosa

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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