Cultivar

B. ‘Billee Marie’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Billee Marie’
Originator: Asmussen
Date of Origin: 1984
Publication Date: 1995
Place: Texas
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Kenlo’
Male Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Synonyms and Comments: Bille Maree; Male parent “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei
Publication Reference: B & K;AL

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Kenlo’

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Bille Maree; Male parent “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Billee Marie’

Bille Maree; Male parent “suffruticosa” form of B. dregei

Female parent

B. ‘Kenlo’

Possible female parent also cited as “Kentwood”. Male parent cited as “sceptrum”.

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Female parent

B. ‘Superba type seedling’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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