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"Poynton's multiflora" rose Description
Photo courtesy of Simon Voorwinde
Class:
Found Rose, Hybrid Multiflora, Shrub, Understock.
Bloom:
White. Strong, fruity, pine fragrance. 5 petals. Average diameter 1.25". Small, single (4-8 petals), in large clusters bloom form. Prolific, once-blooming spring or summer. Small, glandular sepals buds.
Habit:
Tall, arching, bushy, few or no prickles/thorns, well-branched. Small, semi-glossy, medium green, dense, wrinkled (rugose) foliage. 5 to 9 leaflets.
Height: up to 6'7" (up to 200cm). Width: up to 6'7" (up to 200cm).
Growing:
Can be used for hedge, landscape, shrub or specimen. Very vigorous. can be grown as a shrub. drought resistant. heat tolerant. produces decorative hips. shade tolerant. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant. Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Found rose. Provenance Poynton's Nursery; hence the study name "Poynton's Multiflora", Tasmania, 2006. Found as a discarded pot in a trash heap with an old rootstock growing out of it. This is the old rootstock. Once flowering. Thornless on stems. Prickles on rachis. Forms many small red hips. Very vigorous and disease resistant. Makes a great understock and strikes exceptionally easily. Some OP seedlings from it show a degree of remontancy with scattered rebloom in Autumn. Passes on rugose foliage traits to its descendants. Assumed diploid though not officially tested. Always among the first roses to bloom. Some have speculated about the possible pressence of rugosa in its pedigree due to the wrinkled texture of the leaves. Could possibly be trained to climb but grows as a shrub for me making many long arching basal shoots like a hybrid musk would. Flowers have a very strong fruity smell and glandular foliage smells like pine needles.
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