Commercially available

• "Grand Avenue Giant"
• Le Vésuve
• "Vintage Towers Tea"

64 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  

Pink blend China.
Registration name: Le Vésuve (china, Laffay, 1825)
Exhibition name: Le Vésuve (china, Laffay, 1825)

Bred by Jean Laffay (France, 1825). Bred by Louis Claude Noisette (France, 1825).

Found Rose, China / Bengale, Hybrid Bourbon, Tea.  

Pink and rose-red, carmine-pink reverse, ages to crimson .  Medium to large, very double, borne mostly solitary, cupped, globular bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  

Armed with thorns / prickles, well-branched.  Blue-green foliage.  

Height: 3' to 7' (90 to 215cm).  Width: 3' to 6' (90 to 185cm).

USDA zone 7b through 10b.  Can be used for cut flower or garden.  

Diploid

Dominique Massad believes that 'Vésuve' in commerce is actually Bruant's 'Rosabelle'.

There may have been at least two roses called 'Le Vésuve', or just 'Vésuve'. One seems to have been a China Rose, but another may have been a Hybrid Bourbon. Or, possibly, the 'Hybrid Bourbon' description was meant literally, not meaning that the rose belonged to the once-blooming class of Hybrid Bourbons, but just that it was a hybrid with Bourbon ancestry.

'Lemesle' (which see) seems to have been confused in commerce with 'Le Vésuve' sometime in the 20th Century.