Cultivar

B. ‘Côtes-de-Castillon’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Côtes-de-Castillon’
Originator: LaPorte
Date of Origin: 1988
Place: France
Country: France
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. conchifolia var. conchifolia
Male Parent: B. ‘Crestabruchii’
Synonyms and Comments: Incorrectly published in the World Hybrid Checklist as B. ‘Coste-de-Castillon’. B. U508
Publication Reference: WCH

Plant

Description: (Begonia U508) Begonia 'Cotes de Castillon' is another little-known, but surprisingly winter hardy begonia that's excelled in our trials. This unknown species was brought to the US in 1995 from the Kuala Lumpur Orchid Garden by Henri Laporte. Being a wine grower, Henri named it after a favorite wine. In the garden, Begonia 'Cotes de Castillon' forms a 20" tall x 3' wide specimen, composed of large 10" x 7" leaves, held at the end of burgundy petioles. Each glossy silver leaf has a lovely wine/maroon back. The clumps are adorned with pink flowers, but these are mostly produced below the foliage, so we grow this for the amazing foliage. The key to outdoor survival in cold winter climates is keeping the soil dry in the winter months. From:https://www.plantdelights.com/collections/pink-flowers/products/begonia-cotes-de-castillon

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. conchifolia var. conchifolia

Male parent

B. ‘Crestabruchii’

Incorrectly published in the World Hybrid Checklist as B. ‘Coste-de-Castillon’. B. U508

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Côtes-de-Castillon’

Incorrectly published in the World Hybrid Checklist as B. ‘Coste-de-Castillon’. B. U508

Female parent

B. conchifolia var. conchifolia

B. scutellata Liebmann Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :9. 1853; B. pumilio Standley, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25:322. 1940. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:43. 1958.; B. warscewitzii Neuman. 1847; B. conchaefolia;

Male parent

B. ‘Crestabruchii’

Female parent

B. ‘Manicata Crispa’

Male parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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