Cultivar

B. ‘Calico’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Calico’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1947
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male Parent: B. rex
Publication Reference: B71 r189; LW;
Photo References: The Begonian, May 1947; The Begonian, Apr 1947;

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

Male parent

B. rex

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Calico’

Female parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

B. obliqua auct. non L.:Thunberg,1784; B. evansiana Andrews,1811; B. discolor Brown, R. in Aiton,1813; B. erubescens Leveille,1909; B. sinensis A.de Candolle. var. haemaloneura Franch ex Gagnepain,1919; B. bulbifera hort. ex Steudal, Nom. Bot., 1821.; B. grandis Dryander subsp. grandis Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland. 2007; B. ‘Shukaido’

Male parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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