Cultivar

B. ‘Gideon’

Photos

4 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Gideon’
Originator: Freda Holley
Date of Origin: 2000
Place: Stillwater, Ok.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Thick Stem
Female Parent: B. valida
Male Parent: B. reniformis
Publication Reference: BCG; WBHC-WW; F Holley List, August 2014

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. valida

Male parent

B. reniformis

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Gideon’

Female parent

B. valida

Male parent

B. reniformis

huberi C. de Candolle in Huber, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 1:315. 1901. ; inermis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76:39. 1953. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:444. 1983. Fig.31.17. = reniformis Dryander. 1791, sphalmate. [I think this is neither Begonia vitifolia Schott, nor Begonia reniformis Dryander, J. Golding.]; longipes W. J. Hooker Bot. Mag. 57:pl. 3001. 1830.; palmifolia hort. Buxton,1932; vitifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; truncata; grandis Otto ; elatior hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2, 1:193. 1 840. ; vitifolia var. bahiensis; vitifolia var. grandis; longipes W. J. Hooker var. laticordata A. de Candolle in Martius,Fl. Bras. $(1):368. 1861.; vitifolia hort. Berol ex Klotzsch. 1855.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Comments: Best new introduction 2001