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'Brindabella Zest' rose Description
'GRAzest' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
Synonyms:
ARS:
Medium red Floribunda.
Registration name: GRAzest
Exhibition name: Brindabella Zest
Origin:
Bred by Sylvia E. & John C. Gray (Australia, 2014).
Class:
Floribunda.  
Bloom:
Red.  Mild, lemon, spice fragrance.  up to 7 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Large, single (4-8 petals), cluster-flowered, flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Arching, upright.  Semi-glossy, dark green foliage.  7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 2' (up to 60cm).  Width: up to 20" (up to 50cm).
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 31,741  on  12 May 2020   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 16/350,974  on  6 Feb 2019
Inventors: Gray; John Charles (Highfields, AU), Gray; Sylvia Elizabeth (Highfields, AU)
`GRAzest` is a seedling selection which resulted from the controlled cross-pollination of an unnamed Rosa hybrid female breeding line (not patented) and an unnamed Rosa hybrid male breeding line (not patented). ... After many years of trialing, the female parent was confirmed to possess a combination of desirable traits such as very strong fragrance and having flower color white, borne on a bushy plant growing to 1.2 m tall and wide. The male parent was selected for use in breeding after trialing confirmed the presence of a modern flower color. During the spring of 2014, the female parent was emasculated and was manually pollinated with pollen from the male parent.
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