Cultivar

B. ‘Ruby Jewel’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Ruby Jewel’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1941
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Semperflorens
Female Parent: B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’
Male Parent: B. ‘Calla Lily’
Publication Reference: LW; WBHC-WW;
Photo References: The Begonian, Sep 1960; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’

Male parent

B. ‘Calla Lily’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Ruby Jewel’

Female parent

B. ‘Bijou de Jardin’

Female parent

B. semperflorens

B. cucullata Willdenow var. cucullata, 1805;

Male parent

B. minor

u028; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: l'Héritier, Stirp. Nov. 4:95, pl. 46. 1 788 ; nitida Dryander in Aiton, Hort. Kew 3:352. 1789. ; lucida Paxton, Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13,77. 1847, nomen sub iconis sphalmate pro nitida Dryander. 1789. —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:19. 1911 [= odorata Willdenow. 1814, Sphalmate]; in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:10, 19. 1911 . ; suavolens auct. non Loddiges: Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :146. 1855. ; speciosa hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. IV 6:350. 1856 . ; pulchra herb. Schreb. ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 293. 1864. ; nitida Dryander var. discolor Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:354. 1836. ; nitida Dryander var. speciosa R egel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ;34. 18 56. ; nitida Dryander in Paxton’s Mag. Bot. 13:77, pl. 1847.; speciosa hort. Van Houtte ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):293. 1864 .; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: Schneevoogt. 1793.; obliqua auct. non Linnaeus: Klotzsch, Ind. Sem. hort. Berol., app. :1.1856.

Male parent

B. ‘Calla Lily’

B. ‘Veron Variegata’;

Female parent

B. semperflorens

B. cucullata Willdenow var. cucullata, 1805;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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