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Lots of information here, and it looks to be a very nice (if terribly spiky) rose. However, there is no mention of scent anywhere.
Scent is always the first thing I check for with roses, or almost any other plant for that matter. I find it odd that it seems to be ignored in this case. Does it have any scent?
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Scent is a mix of sweet and tea by my nose, reminiscent of 'Belle de Bordeaux'. In my opinion a hybrid Noisette probably with a bourbon. Maybe 'Mme Emile Duneau' a Nabonnand rose
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From les Amis des Roses Nabonnand web site
Descriptif(s) d'époque :
Fleur rose tendre aurore, très grande, pleine, imbriquée. Arbuste très vigoureux, très rustique, belle. Grimpant. Grimpant. Fleur très grande, très pleine, imbriquée, forme parfaite, coloris tendre aurore. Splendide plante pour couvrir les arbres et les murs.
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Climbing habit, to 4 metres, slow to develop to this height
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From Global Times:
Chinese researchers have discovered Rosa lucidissima, a critically endangered species of Rosa chinensis, commonly known as China rose, in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
A joint expedition team from the Foding Mountain nature reserve administration and the College of Forestry of Guizhou University first discovered the species at a national-level reserve in Shiqian County.
"In a field survey in April, we located four plants of Rosa lucidissima at about 700 meters above sea level. The roses swirled up the trees, with eye-catching red flowers hanging from the branches," said Wu Xu, a team member from the College of Forestry of Guizhou University.
As an endemic Chinese species, Rosa lucidissima is sporadically distributed in southern and central China and its wild population is extremely rare. It is on China's red list of biodiversity as a critically endangered species.
Botanists believe that the national second-class protected wild plant species is the primitive form of China rose. Further study on it would offer an insight into the origin and evolution of the rose plants, which could provide an important reference for rose genetics breeding and ecological protection.
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Thank you for posting this John, hopefully there will be further work done. Lynne
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R.lucidissima is once blooming. Is it known how the later China roses developed the repeat blooming trait?
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Not that I am aware of. Obviously a chance mutation though. Repeat blooming roses were being extensively grown and bred during the Song period (960 - 1279 ad), in the city of Luoyang 41 different repeat flowering roses listed
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