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Very ornamental in its own right!
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Yeah :) . They kind of look like large cherry blossoms during spring. But they seldom bloom for me in the tropics.
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#2 of 6 posted
17 DEC 21 by
Hamanasu
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True, I hadn't thought of the cherry blossom similarity. Rather like Shirofugen.
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This is how it looks up-close (it was blooming in a hill nearby, it kind of blooms continuously with the cooler temperatures there). I also once saw this rose climb up and cover a dead tree in full flowery fury, it was spectacular.
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#4 of 6 posted
17 DEC 21 by
Hamanasu
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That's so beautiful. It should be in every rose catalogue. It seems to me the distinctiveness of it is in the flat and perfectly round shape of each individual flower. That's why it looks so much like some varieties of cherry blossom. The shade of pink is also very fresh. I can see some leaves are black, presumably with fungal disease? But the vigour and floriferousness of the plant (from the pictures and your description) seems unaffected.
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Yes. It looks quite pretty, both up close and seen as clusters from a climbing specimen. It also grows 'wild', I did mention that it's used as a 'rootstock' right? Unfortunately, for me, in the tropics, it won't even bloom once :( . It is quite resilient, it does have blackspot in that picture but I've seen an entire arbor covered with this rose up in the mountains. The leaves were are all suffering under a heavy case of blackspot, but it was still covered completely with blooms.
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#6 of 6 posted
19 DEC 21 by
styrax
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At the end of my growing season, many of my polyantha's leaves gunk up like that: it has a different spotting pattern than blackspot, and I suspect it's just a rather ugly form of leaf senescence. They're clean for the rest of the season, though.
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