Begonia - cane ?

The Silent Seed

4 years ago

A friend gave me this - not sure what it is - tall, very floriferous.

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years ago
Angel wing begonia
The Silent Seed
Original Author
4 years ago
I'm looking for a specific variety name, but thank you!
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That was an interesting journey trying to track down your citation. I wanted to see the picture to refresh my memory, and I thought maybe that was a new source of begonias too. I kept getting messages like 'can't find' or 'begonias.com can't find the requested page'. Do you have an old catalog or something? I believe Cloudy Valley is selling in local markets now but not from their website. You can probably buy it but I can't, in other words. Bummer! Anyway, and since no one else is answering, I can tell you my memory is of a beautiful plant, but it's one I no longer have. That might just mean it got over-looked when I was taking them in one fall, but it doesn't seem to me it every really throve. Can't remember when I had it. I grow a lot of canes, and they all have to put up with somewhat erratic care since my husband is ill, and also since I did cute little things like break both bones in my ankle quite thoroughly a few years ago. The tough ones hang in there and often seem to manage somehow to look beautiful. Some I've lost the labels for, or never had names in the first place, but Silvermist is amazingly tough and beautiful, and there's Little Miss Mummey and Cracklin' Rosie and one I think I've identified as Irene Nuss, and Kismet (a little one) and Nakomis--maybe try Sylvan Triumph a little later, or try two or three at the same time. That way if one doesn't do well, probably the other or others will, and you won't risk feeling like you can't grow begonias. Some may be hard for me and easy for you, and vice versa, but I'm sure you'll find some you love and can grow easily, and then you can try some more, and more---good luck!
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years ago
You want a cultivar name?? Good luck - there are bazillions of them!!
Embothrium
4 years ago
Here's a page with some pictures and associated cultivar names. Clicking on the names produces some basic descriptive information.

https://stevesleaves.com/product-category/begonias-cane-like-begonias/
hc mcdole
4 years ago
Looks like 'Corallina de Lucerna', most folks call it Lucerna for short.
The Silent Seed
Original Author
4 years ago
You nailed it. I knew somebody would recognize it. Thank you very much!
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years ago
I wouldn't be quite so hasty. There are a goodly number of cultivars with almost identical appearance - Ruby Tuesday, Peach Parfait, Tom Ment, My Special Angel, just to name a few.

Do the leaves have a red reverse?
Embothrium
4 years ago
Photo and description from the site I linked to above, which says it is the common angelwing begonia.

https://stevesleaves.com/product/begonia-lucerna/

One thing I would think about is if the flowers of yours fit the bill.
hc mcdole
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Well fudge! My last post did not go - guess the photos screwed it up.

It is NOT 'Tom Ment' or 'My Special Angel'. The other two mentions are probably not that well known or distributed but I could be wrong. 'Tom Ment' and 'Fabulous Tom' are small canes and 'My Special Angel' is a medium sized cane with a unique shoulder.

Lucerna is a wonderful pass along cane. My wife got a cutting of it from her co-workers nearly 45 years ago and we only knew it as "angel wing begonia" for probably 25 to 30 years until the internet and a PC were affordable. I still have it but it is a cutting of a cutting of a cutting...

I cut it and start it over every few years. It can easily get over six feet tall if you let it.

I bought 'Purple Haze' down in Orlando that looks very similar but cannot find it on line so it may be a local ID or maybe Lucerna in disguise.

The other possibility is 'Coral Sea' but all pictures I've seen of it shows it to be quite the bloomer.

http://www.kartuz.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=90049&Category_Code=2BEG01

Okay I am going to try to add a picture at a time since that post went.

This is Lucerna grown by a wonderful grower from Miami. This was at the begonia convention at WPB in 2009. I believe it was nearly six feet tall.

Okay that went so here is a second photo of Lucerna at a wholesale grower in the Orlando area. This is the mother plant that they cut to get all their new starts from. I do not know the cane on the left.

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