Cultivar

B. ‘Ruby’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Ruby’
Date of Origin: 1981
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. masoniana
Male Parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Publication Reference: MLT1; BL01 12d06; B95 r061

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. masoniana

Male parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Ruby’

Female parent

B. masoniana

Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;

Male parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

B. obliqua auct. non L.:Thunberg,1784; B. evansiana Andrews,1811; B. discolor Brown, R. in Aiton,1813; B. erubescens Leveille,1909; B. sinensis A.de Candolle. var. haemaloneura Franch ex Gagnepain,1919; B. bulbifera hort. ex Steudal, Nom. Bot., 1821.; B. grandis Dryander subsp. grandis Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland. 2007; B. ‘Shukaido’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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