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'Little Bit o' Sunshine' rose Description
'Bit o' Sunshine' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Barden, Paul
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
19 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Deep yellow Miniature.
Registration name: Bit o' Sunshine
Origin:
Bred by Ralph S. Moore (United States, 1956).
Introduced by Unknown (Australia) in 1961 as 'Bit o' Sunshine'.
Class:
Miniature.  
Bloom:
Butter-yellow.  Occasionally up to 30 to 40 narrow petals.  Moderate, tea rose fragrance.  18 to 20 petals.  Average diameter 1.5".  Small, semi-double to double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small, leafy sepals, long sepals, long, pointed buds.  
Habit:
Short, bushy, well-branched.  Semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 1' to 15" (30 to 40cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,631  on  6 Aug 1957   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 616,359  on  16 Oct 1956
The variety was originated by me in my nursery in Visalia, Tulare County, California, as a seedling resulting from a cross of Copper Glow as the seed parent, and un unnamed seedling (Carolyn Dean X Tom Thumb) as the pollen parent.
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