Can Someone Identify this Plant?

I hope someone can identify this plant for me. One of our Master Gardeners in N. Indiana has been growing this on their patio. It almost looks like something in the cyclamen family, but the leaves are rounder and fleshier, and MUCH larger. Any assistance would be appreciated!
Patty Sliney
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just a wild guess but maybe a begonia?

 

Looks like a Water Lily thats not being grown in standing water.

 

I second the begonia guess. I don't think that is a wild guess, (un)fortunately there are so many.

 

My mom always called hers beef steak begonia. Take a look at this page for a comparison. Might be a different species of begonia as Eric's post states there are a lot to choose from.

http://www.csbsju.edu/greenhouse/03template/template_pages/template_one.htm

Sorry about the above link, it leaves a lot to be desired. Try the following for a picture and description.

http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1043653.html

 

This is absolutley a beefsteak begonia, I have 5 of these plants, luv them!

Here is one of my Beefsteak Begonia

 

I can say for sure it's a begonia, my mother had one just like it for years and years (I'm talking maybe older than me, and I just turned 50)... it moved with us everywhere; she'd take a cutting and just keep it going. It flowers every so often a pretty insignificant looking pinkish bloom, but the foliage is lovely. She still has it, as far as I know. It can get lanky, with a ropelike stem that gets long and loses the leaves... but cutting off a hunk and rerooting it is easy.

 

Hi bedixon, how did your mother root hers? I just repotted mine in the spring and put them outside for the last six months, I just brought them in yesterday(I live in NJ). I found that it is better to pot them in shallow wide pots so the rhizomes can touch the soil and root. I have five of these plants all fairly large pots, one is so large it is in a
12" terra cotta pot, the others are in window boxes. I have also been given them urea free fertilizer because they are in a soiless potting mixture with no bacteria. The one in the 12" pot is pictured below.

 

Hi Luvvy,
My mom is a big user of vermiculite, so I'm guessing that's what she'd use. The next time I talk to her I'll ask... maybe she has a more identifying name too. As far as I know she always kept them as indoor plants, although we are in a mild climate and she often moved pots outside for the summer.