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• À Feuilles de Chanvre
• Boat-leaved Rose
• Hemp-Leaved White Rose
• Rosa alba cannabina
• Rosa alba cymbaefolia
• Rosa alba staxon cymbaefolia Redouté & Thory
• Rosa alba var. cymbaefolia (Redouté) Heinr.Braun
• Rosa cannabifolia
• Rosa X alba cannabifolia
• Rosa X cannabifolia
• Rosier blanc à feuilles de Chanvre

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White, near white or white blend Alba.
Registration name: À Feuilles de Chanvre
Exhibition name: Rosa alba cymbaefolia

Discovered by Flobert (France, 1807).

Alba.  

White, pink undertones.  Strong fragrance.  Average diameter 1.5".  Small, semi-double to double, in small clusters bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  Long sepals buds.  

Few or no prickles/thorns.  Matte, blue-green foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: 39" to 9'10" (100 to 300cm).  Width: up to 3' (up to 90cm).

USDA zone 3b through 9b.  

Rosa alba var. cymbaefolia (Redouté) Heinr.Braun. Fl. Nieder-Österreich 2(1): 802. 1892.
‘A feuilles de chanvre’, was first observed in 1807 by a Monsieur Flobert, near Laon, north-east of France. It was then presented to the famous Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1810 by Mr. Le Pelletier.

[Source: L'Haÿ-les-roses Label]