BEGONIA PLANT NAMED 'TNBEGRM'

Abstract

A new and distinct form of Begonia plant characterized leaves colored burgundy to silvered burgundy with olive green along veins, dark burgundy red leaf backs, medium pink flowers, a trailing habit, and excellent vigor.

Claims

1. A new and distinct form of Begonia plant as hereby illustrated and described.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0013] FIG. 1 shows a 9-month old in a growing in a 10 inch hanging basket in a warm greenhouse in March in Canby, Oreg.

[0014] FIG. 2 shows a one-year old plant of the new cultivar growing in early summer in bloom in a warm greenhouse in Canby, Oreg.

[0015] FIG. 3 shows a close up of a flower and leaves of the same plant.

DETAILED PLANT DESCRIPTION

[0016] The following is a detailed description of the new Begonia cultivar based on observations of 9-month-old specimens grown in one gallon containers in a warm greenhouse in June in Canby, Oreg. Canby is Zone 8 on the USDA Hardiness map. Temperatures range from a high of 95° F. in August to 32° F. in January. Normal rainfall in Canby is 42.8 inches per year. The color descriptions are all based on The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 5.sup.th edition, 2007. [0017] Plant: [0018] Type.—Tropical perennial. [0019] Form.—Trailing. [0020] Cold hardiness.—USDA Zone 10. [0021] Size.—Trailing to 60 cm and 43cm wide. [0022] Vigor.—Excellent. [0023] Roots and rooting.—Roots appear on leaf cuttings in 2 weeks; fine, fibrous, and white in color. [0024] Stem: [0025] Type.—Decumbent. [0026] Size.—Grows to 44 cm long and 6 mm wide. [0027] Internodes.—From 1 cm to 2.5 cm long. [0028] Surface.—Pubescent. [0029] Lateral branches.—Where pinched. [0030] Color.—Greyed Brown N199A. [0031] Leaf: [0032] Type.—Simple. [0033] Arrangement.—Alternate. [0034] Number per stem.—About 20. [0035] Leaf strength.—Excellent, tough, leathery. [0036] Blade size.—Grows to 7 cm wide and 12 cm long. [0037] Shape.—Ovate. [0038] Margins.—Very shallowly 4 to 5 lobed, dentate to denticulate. [0039] Apex.—Acuminate. [0040] Base.—Oblique and cordate. [0041] Venation.—Palmate, topside Green 138B, bottom side Greyed Purple 187A. [0042] Surface texture.—Pubescent on both sides. [0043] Stipules.—Deciduous, ovate, 10 mm long and 5 mm wide, apex aristate, base sessile and clasping ,entire, back side pubescent, inside glabrous, both sides Greyed Red 181B. [0044] Petiole description.—2.5 cm to 6.5 cm long and 2.5 mm wide, succulent, pubescent, Greyed Brown N199A on topside and Greyed Purple 187B on bottom side. [0045] Leaf color.—Topside in low light Greyed Purple 187C with the 2 mm on either side of the veins closest to Green N138B, bottom side Greyed Purple 187A; topside in high light there is an overlay of N187B over Greyed Purple 187C with the 2 mm on either side of the veins closest to Green N138B, bottom side Greyed Purple 187A. [0046] Inflorescence: [0047] Type.—Axillary, bisexual (only tepals, no pistil or stamen), cymose. [0048] Number of flowers per cyme.—Usually 4 to 5. [0049] Peduncle description.—Grows 39 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, glabrous, fleshy, of good strength , Greyed Orange 176A; with 2 opposite, dehiscent petiolate leaf-bracts below each cyme, deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, 13 mm long and 10 mm wide, apex mucronate, margin ciliate, both sides glabrous and Yellow Green 147C. [0050] Pedicel description.—Grow to 15 mm long, 1 mm wide, fleshy, glabrous, of good strength, Red Purple 68D. [0051] Bloom period.—Late winter to mid-summer in Canby, Oreg. [0052] Flower bud: [0053] Size.—11 mm long and 11 mm wide prior to opening. [0054] Shape.—Flattened teardrop. [0055] Surface texture.—Glabrous. [0056] Color.—Red Purple 68A with edges 68C. [0057] Flower: [0058] Type.—Male and female sterile, no pistil or stamen, bilaterally symmetrical. [0059] Flower.—Grows to 15 mm deep and 35 mm wide overall; 4 fleshy tepals, topside Red Purple 68C, bottom side 68C; outer 2 tepals ovate, entire, tip obtuse, base truncate; two inner tepals broadly obovate, margin undulate, tip retuse, base attenuate. [0060] Fragrance.—None. [0061] Lastingness.—A cyme blooms for about 4 weeks on the plant; flowers are self-cleaning. [0062] Fruit and seed: none, sterile. [0063] Diseases and pests: The new cultivar is typical to the genus. No known resistances to pests or diseases. No problems have been found in Canby, Oreg.