Cultivar
B. ‘Cami’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Cami’
- Originator
- Rudolf Ziesenhenne
- Publication Date
- 1977
- Place
- Santa Barbara, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘MacIntyre's daedalea’
- Male Parent
- B. aridicaulis
- ABS No
- 606
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B77 a306
- Article References
- The Begonian (44) Nov 1977, p. 306-309.
Plant
- Description
- No. 606 - Begonia (B. 'Macintyre's "daedalea'" X B. aridicaulis) 'Cami' Distinguished by dark-green leaves with. a black pattern on nerves and edge, red on nerves and center, with light green below and blood-red pattern on nerves and edge, this rhizomatous begonia was originated by Rudolf Ziesenhenne, address above, in 1975; it first bloomed in 1976 and will be distributed in 1978. Leaf shape is unequal heart, tapering to a long point, 9 x 5 cm (3 ½ x 2"); margin black toothed at end of each nerve; texture medium; nerves 8 palmate; petioles 15.24 cm (6") red markings slightly hairy; stipules long triangular. Flowers are white, inverted egg shaped; 3 x 2 cm (1.18 x .79"); 2 male, 2 female petals arranged on cyme on 15.24 cm (6") flower stem; blooms May-July. Registered July 22, 1977.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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