Cultivar

B. ‘Shirley Sharp’

Photos

1 photo

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Shirley Sharp’
Originator: Ross Bolwell
Date of Origin: 2000
Publication Date: 2004
Place: Annangrove, NSW.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Lowana’
Male Parent: B. ‘Griselda’
Publication Reference: RBL

Plant

Description: Very large dark green leaves with bold lime yellow splashes along the veins, spiralled with a red and pale green reverse. The plant is very compact considering the large leaves.
Plant Habit: Big and bushy
Plant Spread: Medium
Plant Height: Low
Stem Type: Prostrate
Stem Habit: Few Branched

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lowana’

Male parent

B. ‘Griselda’

Unresolved

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Shirley Sharp’

Female parent

B. ‘Lowana’

Female 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;

Male parent

B. ‘Baby Dress’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Griselda’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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