Cultivar

B. ‘Nanima Ruby’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Nanima Ruby’
Originator: Merv Sharrad
Date of Origin: 1968
Place: Ridgehaven, SA
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. masoniana
Male Parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
ABS No: 286
Publication Reference: ABS;B71 a238

Plant

Stem Type: Underground with erect stems

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. masoniana

Male parent

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Nanima 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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