Begonia Registration Handbook - American Begonia Society

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digitately lobed - having fingerlike lobes dioecious - unisexual divaricate - spreading far apart double-serrate – with the teeth of a serrate leaf margin being themselves serrated elliptical - oblong shape emarginate - having a notched apex endemic - confined to specific area or region; native entire - leaf margin without incisions; uncut epiphyte - plants which normally grow in and are attached to trees but which aren’t parasitic. epithet - name erect - upright, perpendicular to the ground Fl - first generation offspring of the mating of two different varieties family - made up of one or more genera whose similarities are greater than their differences fascicle - a close bundle or cluster ferruginous - rust colored fertile - seed bearing, when the term is applied to seed, it means seed which is capable of producing plants. fibrous - with fibers; fiber-like filament - supporting stalk of the stamen fimbriate - fringed flaccid - limp and lax; without rigidity fleshy – succulent; thick, firm and juicy flexuose - bent alternately in opposite directions floccose - having soft hair or wool that rubs off easily flora - plants of a specific region page 35
foliage – leaves of a plant foveolate – surface pitted with shallow distinct depressions frutescent. - shrubby fulvous - yellow, tawny fuscescent - dusky genus - classification of plants with common distinguishing characteristics; main subdivision of plant family; (plural - genera) glabrous – bare without hairs glaucous - waxy or powdery surface glutinous - sticky or gluey grex – group, when following the name of a cultivar designates that the name of all cultivars created using the same parents are identical and must carry the cultivar name. gynoeuium - reproductive portion of a female flower hastate - basal lobes turned outward herbaceous - plants without woody stems herbarium - collection of dried plants used for botanical study herbarium specimen - dried specimen plant hermaphrodite – flowers containing reproductive parts of both male and female Hiemalis - a group of winter-blooming begonias derived from a cross of B. socotrana and a Tuberhybrida variety hirsute - hairy hispid - bearing dense straight harshly stiff hairs holotype –species specimen conforming to naming author’s description hyaline - colorless or transparent hybrid - plant resulting from crossing two different parents or by selfing a hybrid page 36
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Page 3 and 4: This handbook contains all the info
Page 5 and 6: Flowers: Color- tepals_____________
Page 7 and 8: Cultivar Development Section 1 2 3
Page 9 and 10: Leaves: Color______________________
Page 11 and 12: 6 Main Veins For this description y
Page 13 and 14: 6 Amount of clusters Circle which t
Page 15 and 16: page 16 Elements of a leaf
Page 17 and 18: Serrate: A serrate margin is a marg
Page 19 and 20: Incisions On the previous pages, va
Page 21 and 22: page 22 Leaf Bases
Page 23 and 24: page 24 Leaf Shapes
Page 25 and 26: page 26 Leaf Tip (apex) Leaf tip ty
Page 27 and 28: page 28 Width of leaf 5 1/2 inches
Page 29 and 30: page 30 flowers pedicels peduncle B
Page 31 and 32: page 32 Glossary of Botanical Terms
Page 33: classification - the placement of a
Page 37 and 38: monoecious - plant has separate flo
Page 39 and 40: otundate - rounded in outline rugos
Page 41 and 42: umbel - pedicels arising from the s

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