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The main page states that Colette is medium pink but the photos look to me like it's more of an apricot blend. Is it really pink or apricot? |
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Rose pigments, being living tissue, vary greatly depending upon a variety of factors...weather, soil type, heat, nutrient levels, plant condition, location, time of year, time of day, etc. THEN, you have the vagaries of photography as well as light quality with all their issues. In my experience, Collette is more often in apricot tones, but it CAN appear pretty uniform pink. That's what makes identifying roses from photographs such a buggaboo. Unless form or some other characteristic is so obvious, mis identifications are extremely easy to make. Kim
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28 MAR 16 by
LaurelZ
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It is a light pink, like the pink panther that sometimes has dark pink accents. Having looked at the photos in which it appears Apricot, I noticed both of them are from Europe. I don't see any of the apricot pink ones in the USA. I think the Apricot is also perfectly nice, but is it possible the ones in Europe are a different rose?
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The U.S. Patent says:
Color (when opening begins): Upper surface: near Azalea Pink, Red Group 38A, and more or less suffused with Geranium Lake, Red Group 47D, with the edges commonly being near Empire Rose, Red Group 48D.
Color (when blooming): Upper surface: near Red Group 55D on the external petals and Coral Pink, Red Group 38D, suffused with Empire Rose, Red Group 48D, on the internal petals.
Color (at end of opening): upper surface: near Red Group 55D on the external petals and Coral Pink, Red Group 38D, suffused with Empire Rose, Red Group 48D, on the internal petals.
These colors intimate to me that ‘Colette’ started off life in her European apricot dress.
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