Pending registration

• 45-03-08
• ARDique

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White, near white or white blend Hybrid Wichurana.
Registration name: ARDique
Exhibition name: Tajique

Bred by Paul Barden (United States, 2003).

Hybrid Wichurana.  

Newly opened blooms are a soft peach, but fade to cream/white in a day or two..  Mild to strong, apple, cinnamon fragrance.  35 to 55 petals.  Average diameter 2.5".  Medium, full (26-40 petals), cluster-flowered, button-eye, old-fashioned bloom form.  Moderate, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small, ovoid buds.  

Short, compact, rounded.  Medium, glossy, dark green, holly-like foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: 18" to 42" (45 to 105cm).  Width: 18" to 42" (45 to 105cm).

USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, landscape or shrub.  Benefits from winter protection in colder climates.  flowers drop off cleanly.  rain tolerant.  shade tolerant.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, blackspot resistant, very mildew resistant, very rust resistant.  

Commercial availability anticipated pending registration, perhaps limited release in 2013 by Rogue Valley Roses. Ploidy is listed as diploid, but this is based solely on the ploidy of both parents and without actually counting, this is merely speculative.

Does not form hips. I don't know if it makes fertile pollen or not. (Never looked!)

Diploid

The seed parent, 0-47-19 = Rosa wichurana Crépin × Floradora