Cultivar

B. ‘Baby Ruth’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Baby Ruth’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. ‘Alice N.’
Male Parent: B. ‘Orange Rubra’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Medium growing cane with long narrow leaves. Leaves are dark bronze, with white Begonia maculata-type spots and deeply dentated edge. Flowers are dark pink. Easy to grow upright. Very showy even out of bloom.
Plant Height: Low to Medium 1m

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Alice N.’

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Rubra’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Baby Ruth’

Female parent

B. ‘Alice N.’

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Female parent

B. ‘Superba type seedling’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Rubra’

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Coral Rubra’

Cited as a form of B. coccinea

Female parent

B. coccinea

B. rubra hort. ex Irmscher. 1960;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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