B. ‘Rubud’

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. - Ruby Budd of the Westchester district of Los Angeles has a cultivar that has proved to be worthwhile from the hardy and beautiful angle. She crossed B. paulensis with B. 'Rola-Y' and obtained an upright, hairy begonia that is distinctive in every way. B. paulensis is a species with waffle like leaves; it has a peltate, light to dark green leaf, sparsely red-haired. B. 'Rola-Y' is a cultivar that was named after Roy and Laura Yewell. (The first two letters from each of their given names. coupled with the first letter of their last name, coined the begonia name.) B. 'Rola-Y' is similar to one of its parents, B. hugeli; it is so similar that the cultivar and the species are often confused. With this parentage-B. paulensis and B. 'Rola-Y'- Ruby Budd created Begonia 'Rubud', Grex. She distributed all the seedlings from the cross, hence the Grex. She is propagating the best of the fibrous, hairy begonia and has distinguished this as B. 'Rubud Giant'. The leaves often attain the size of a large dinner plate and the plant (staked) grows to five feet.
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• Classification: Cultivar
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Origin: America, USA
• Originator: Ruby Mae Budd
• Date of Origin: 1962