B. 'Duchess of Windsor'

New Begonia Duchess of Windsor by TRISTRAM COFFIN WHITAKER, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. About two years ago there appeared in a pot of seedlings in our greenhouse, one Begonia which grew with amazing rapidity. Needless to say, it was watched, and as it grew larger we wondered at its vigor and size. Finally, it flowered with great, huge clusters of about fifty or more flowers to the cluster, mostly males, of a delightful soft pink, and oh! produced so profusely. The leaves are large on the older plants, but smaller on the young ones, at times they are quite round but often having a long point and in some so pointed as to resemble the rubras. The color is light lettuce green becoming darker and slightly tinged with red in strong sunlight. Begonia Duchess of Windsor is fine, for baskets if pinched to induce bushiness. The flowers are so abundant that young plants headed back several times look like a Christmas Begonia. The flower clusters hang in a drooping fashion as in the Coccinea (rubra) with a strong resemblance to the same Begonia. B. Duchess of Windsor (semperflorens x Coccinea var. Pink rubra) was named in honor of and by permission of Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor.

• Classification: Cultivar
• Plant Type: Semperflorens
• Origin: America, USA
• Originator: Whittaker
• Date of Origin: 1940