Cultivar
B. ‘Nebob Grex’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Nebob Grex’
- Originator
- Alice Roberts
- Publication Date
- 1965
- Place
- Encinitas, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Article References
- The Begonian (32) Dec 1965, p 240-41.
Plant
- Description
- RECENT OUTSTANDING CULTIVARS by DOROTHY S. BEHRENDS In the past two or three years, too few persons on the West Coast have been hybridizing begonias. But those who have been hybridizing have produced outstanding types, recognizable anywhere. You will all want some of these cultivars. Do not go to the hybridizers for plants. Plants will be distributed in the usual way when there are enough. Another begonia personage who is quietly hybridizing begonias is Alice Roberts of Encinitas, California. Several years ago, she crossed B. philodendroides on to B. nelumbiifolia. The resultant cross is a rhizomatous begonia with sharply-lobed, heavy-textured leaves, on heavy, brown tomentum- covered petioles on the immature growth, losing the tomentum on maturity. The plant rests during the winter months, but does not go completely naked as does B. philodendroides, which rests for approximately six months of the year. This begonia branches well and becomes a full specimen, with light green coloring similar to both parents, and in addition it has a silver overlay, while the root system is a semi-buried rhizome. Alice Roberts gave this unusual begonia the name Begonia 'Nebob Grex'. She has distributed all the plants from this cross, but, unlike many such "whole-seed-pod distributions", most of these plants hold true to the same pattern. A few will have peltate leaves (from B. nelumbiifolia) rather than the lobed leaves. B. 'Nebob' is susceptible to mildew, but this can be controlled easily with effective sprays.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Comments
- B. 'Nebob' is susceptible to mildew, but this can be controlled easily with effective sprays.