Cultivar

B. ‘Ryugujo’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Ryugujo’
Originator: Daiten Shimizu
Date of Origin: 1975
Place: Japan
Country: Japan
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. goegoensis
Male Parent: B. formosana
Synonyms and Comments: Male parent cited as B. laciniata
Publication Reference: JBS1

Plant

Stem Type: Prostrate

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. goegoensis

Male parent

B. formosana

Male parent cited as B. laciniata

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Ryugujo’

Male parent cited as B. laciniata

Female parent

B. goegoensis

Etymology: after the type locality of Goegoe;

Male parent

B. formosana

Etymology: derived from Ilha Formosa ‘(Beautiful Island)’ a Portugese name for Taiwan; B. sinensis auct. non A. de Candolle: Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Form. 24:46. 1896.; B. laciniata auct. non Roxburgh: Forbes & Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23:322. 1888.—Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977 [= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. laciniata Roxburgh var. formosana Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30:124. 1911.—Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977.[= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. laciniata auct. non Roxburgh: Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 22:166. 1906. —Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 30:124. 1911 [= B. laciniata Roxburgh var. formosana Hayata. 1911.] —Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977[= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. tarokoensis M. J. Lai. 1990.; B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune f. albomaculata Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai. 1977.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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