Northern California, CA (Zone 9a) | November 2008 | positive
Nice robust shrub type of mysterious parentage. No doubt it has B. gehrtii as a parent but the pollen parent is a mystery.
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Per Michael Ludwig of San Diego, "B. Concha is a chance seedling. Chuck Ades [of Ades & Gish Nursery] was looking to grow B. gerhrtii, I had selfed my plants for the [ABS] seed fund and so I gave him about a tablespoon of the seed. Out of it he got three plants that were different. The lady that grows his begonias like one the best her name was Concha. Another grew smaller and was named B. Conchita, The third plant was too similar to the others so wasn't propagated.
B. gerhrtii was growing under the benches outside and the only other plant that was blooming at the time there was Rudy's (Ziesenhenne] B. scharffiana.
Nice robust shrub type of mysterious parentage. No doubt it has B. gehrtii as a parent but the pollen parent is a mystery.
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