Cultivar

B. ‘Carminata’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Carminata’
Originator: James Veitch and Sons
Date of Origin: 1895
Place: Chelsea
Country: England, UK
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. coccinea
Publication Reference: C

Plant

Description: Veitch’s' Catalog. of Pl. 1896, p. 2, fig. Hortus Veitchii: London: J. Veitch & sons, 1906. Page 231-34 Item: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/196248 A handsome Begonia, the result of a cross between the Brazilian species Begonia coccinea and the South African B. Dregei. The foliage is neat and attractive, the bright carmine-pink flowers, in pendulous cymes composed of from twenty to thirty each, are massive and effective.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. coccinea

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Carminata’

Female 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;

Male parent

B. coccinea

B. rubra hort. ex Irmscher. 1960;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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