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Initial post 14 JUL by Unregistered Guest
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Initial post 13 JUL by HeelinRoses
Hello everyone,
I'm looking to identify a coral pink-orange flowered climber of 5-10 feet which was somewhere between 'Compassion' and Kordes' Rosenseli but with possibly a better formed flower than both and not the over-hanging growth of the latter. Its flowers were high-centred, lantern-shaped, with colourfast, smooth edged, rolled back petals of a deeper pink/orange than in most of the photos here (of 'Compassion') and held upright on 5-7 inch peduncles (solitary, or no more than 3 peduncles together) at 8 inch intervals along a prickly branch. The new stems and peduncles were light green not dark purple/brown (as usually with Compassion) and the foliage was quite sparse and not too glossy. Sorry but I have no photos and the plant is now gone. The standout feature was its fragrance which to sniff was medium strength 'rose' but 2 blooms in the vase easily spread a scent throughout the house - buoyant, exotic - of strawberries with mango, maybe hints of vanilla and lime. Not musky, spicy or rough smelling. Vase life: 5-8 days. Any ideas?
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Reply #1 of 6 posted 13 JUL by Marlorena
Photo please?
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Reply #2 of 6 posted 13 JUL by HeelinRoses
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Reply #3 of 6 posted 13 JUL by Marlorena
In that case, I doubt anyone will be able to help you. It's often a tall order even with a photo.
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Reply #4 of 6 posted 13 JUL by HeelinRoses
I agree but it's the fragrance (when left in a vase) that puts my mystery rose in another league and not its appearance of a sparsely foliated and leggy climber or its blooms though they were of excellent form (see my descriptions above and on the 'Rosenresli' pages) and that's why there must be someone out there who knows what it's called?
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Reply #5 of 6 posted 14 JUL by HubertG
Maybe 'Paris Charm'??
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Reply #6 of 6 posted 14 JUL by HeelinRoses
HubertG - Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not convinced my mystery plant was descended from Prima Ballerina.
According to the 'Rosebook' web pages, Paris Charm has solitary blooms and also clusters of 5-7 but my mystery plant only had solitary peduncles or up to 3 together, each peduncle about 5-7 inch long, light-green and fuzzy. The growth supporting these was painful to handle (without gloves) and the two main woody, prickled trunks from the ground, together with the top-growth, reached up to 6-feet and more. I have since been informed that the plant was a climber which in other years went up over the little shed roof but at the times I harvested its flowers, the plant had either been trimmed down or hadn't grown back fully from a hard pruning in the previous Winter.
Though the mystery plant definitely looked 'familiar' like many a coral-pink hybrid tea climber, it was at least comparable in form and colour to something like 'Touch of Class' but with smaller and neater blooms.
The beautiful, uplifting strawberry/rose/mango aroma was more pervasive (in the vase) than my Chandos Beauty, Special Anniversary or even Memorial Day - possibly because each petal was quite thin in substance and the scent production organs and glands may have been more developed than in most other kinds of rose.
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Initial post 13 NOV by Poesie
Hello,

This rose looks beautiful! : )

Poesie
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 13 JUL by Hamish Cheetham
Thank you
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Initial post 13 JUL by Unregistered Guest
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