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'Floradora' rose References
Book (2006) Page(s) 138.
Floradora Floribunda. Good, reliable rebloom. Moderate fragrance. Short, spreading. Tantau, 1944...Cupped flowers reminiscent of the Shell roses, light scarlet pink to cinnabar-red, in sprays; an important parent of many roses....AARS, 1945.
Book (Dec 1998) Page(s) 246. Includes photo(s).
Floradora Floribunda. Tantau (Germany) 1944. 'Baby Chateau' x R. roxburghii... 'Floradora' was one of the first of the new color group of salmon-orange roses that was lead to the brilliant coloring of 'Super Star' and 'Fragrant Cloud'... an important rose in an historical sense... The blooms fade rather badly and this fault has been inherited by many of its progeny...
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 184.
Floradora Floribunda, orange-red, 1944, 'Baby Chateau' x R. roxburghii; Tantau. Description.
Book (1978) Page(s) 121.
FIoradora' Medium + Vermilion red Remontant P2 H2
There is an extraordinary neglect of this important rose in our rose literature. It was introduced in the United States in 1943 or 1944, and presumably in Germany some time previously, I have failed to discover when. It was raised by Mathias Tantau, and the parentage is variously given as 'Baby Château' x R. roxburghii (Modern Roses); and R. multibracteata x 'Baby Château' (Dr W. E. Lammerts). Neither is likely to be exact. It was one of the first to exhibit the vermilion inheritance from 'Baby Château' in double flowers, but rather lighter and duller than the colour description indicates. The leaves were glossy and healthy, but not attractive in their abundance of cold light green. Not an elegant rose, it was unique at the time, both in appearance and descent. We know it was pollen parent to 'Queen Elizabeth', and we may strongly suspect that Tantau' s breeding records might link it with 'Super Star'.
Magazine (Oct 1974) Page(s) 14.
"To Touch a Rainbow" (Creating New Miniatures)
Ralph S. Moore of Sequoia Nursery
Floradora — used mainly for its vigor and color (this rose has R. roxburghii in it) and because it will root easily.
Book (8 Mar 1970) Page(s) 24-26.
Queen Elizabeth... raised by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, of Livermore, California... He had begun work on it just after the war, crossing 'Charlotte Armstrong', a tall-growing blood-red hybrid tea of his own breeding, with 'Floradora', a red floribunda raised by the Tantaus in Germany... the American plants of 'Queen Elizabeth' were all much bigger than anything [Wheatcroft himself had] ever seen the variety achieve in [England]... budded on multiflora stocks, which always produce an outsize root system, they were three or four times the size of [the plants in England] in every way... fragrance is all that it lacks...
Website/Catalog (1960) Page(s) 24.
FLORADORA (Tantau 1943). Larges corolles orange cuivré uniforme. FL [feuillage luisant]. LO [légèrement odorantes]. VH [grande végétation]. + [conseillées pour fleurs coupées de plein air].
Website/Catalog (1959) Includes photo(s).
FLORADORA
Polyantha : la pièce 220 f r. - les dix 2.000 fr.
Website/Catalog (1958) Page(s) 30.
Hybrid Polyantha or Floribunda Roses. Floradora. (Tantau 1943) 3. Vivid orange scarlet semi-double to double blooms in clusters. Tall grower. Semi-double. Tall.
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