Cultivar

B. ‘Bob Cherry’

Photos

4 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Bob Cherry’
Originator: Ross Bolwell
Date of Origin: 2001
Place: Annangrove, NSW
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Crestabruchii’
Male Parent: B. ‘Griselda’
Publication Reference: RBL

Plant

Description: This begonia has large silver-green ovate leaves with crested margins and bold rich red veins. Fine white hairs sparsely line the crested edge. The dark reddish petioles also have these fine white hairs. The begonia is a strong open grower forming a big plant.

Lineage

2 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Crestabruchii’

Male parent

B. ‘Griselda’

Unresolved

Ancestry tree

Female parent

Female parent

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. ‘Griselda’

Unresolved

Descendants

2 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Crispy Creme’

B. ‘Lava Flow’

Male parent: B. un-named rhizomatous cv.

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

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