B. ‘Louis Bouchet’

A brilliant orange-red, plant is of dwarf, branching habit and loaded with blooms.Reference from 'The Garden', 29 Nov 1879: "New Tuberous Begonias for 1879".
...Among the double-flowered varieties, those sent out by Monsieur Boucher, of Billancourt, near Paris, deserve the first place as the most vigorous and satisfactory growers of any doubles yet sent out, being of upright and freely branching habit of growth, much resembling that of the old boliviensis; they were obtained from some chance seed obtained, without any care of fertilisation, from a slightly semi-double variety, of English origin, named Dr. Moore. They are five in number, named Louis Boucher, with light orange-scarlet flowers fully and evenly double, centre prettily fringed... Four of these fine varieties are well and accurately figured in the coloured plate of the number of the "Revue Horticole" for August 16, 1879.

• Classification: Cultivar
• Plant Type: Tuberous
• Origin: Europe, France
• Originator: Boucher
• Date of Origin: 1876