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Cultivar

B. ‘Bob Golden’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Bob Golden’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1995
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Mallet
Female Parent: B. ‘Shalimar’
Male Parent: B. u062
Publication Reference: BTL2; WBHC-WW;

Plant

Description: Small growing mallet-type cane. Leaves are dark green, small and narrow with dark pink to red splashes. Very showy colouring and not hard to grow. Flowers are light pink. Stays to a small compact size without much training.
Plant Habit: Cane-like

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Shalimar’

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Male parent

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Bob Golden’

Female parent

B. ‘Shalimar’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

maculata Raddi var. maculata auct. non Raddi: L.B.Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:465. 1984; Phytologia 55:112. 1984.

Male parent

Opinions vary on plant type, this plant often considered a Cane-like - mallet

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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