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    'Wildfire' rose Description
    'Wildfire (floribunda, Swim 1953)' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of AmiRoses
    HMF Ratings:
    9 favorite votes.  
    ARS:
    Medium red Floribunda.
    Registration name: Wildfire (floribunda, Swim 1953)
    Exhibition name: Wildfire
    Origin:
    Bred by Herbert C. Swim (United States, before 1953).
    Introduced in United States by Armstrong Roses in 1955 as 'Wildfire'.
    Introduced in Australia by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. in 1958 as 'Wildfire'.
    Class:
    Floribunda.  
    Bloom:
    Red, yellow center.  Cardinal red.  None to mild fragrance.  8 to 10 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Medium, single to semi-double, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, leafy sepals, ovoid buds.  
    Habit:
    Bushy, compact, well-branched.  Medium, semi-glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

    Height: 42" to 4' (105 to 120cm).  
    Growing:
    USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Vigorous.  
    Patents:
    Netherlands - Application No: 276
    Wildfire, 276, Armstrong Nurseries, Inc. Ontario California U.S.A.
     
    United States - Patent No: PP 1,381  on  19 Apr 1955   VIEW USPTO PATENT
    Application No: 364,976  on  29 Jun 1953
    Herbert C. Swim, Ontario, Calif., assignor to Armstrong Nurseries, Inc., Ontario, Calif.
    Patented as a Hybrid Polyantha
    Parentage:
    World's Fair × Pinocchio (floribunda, Kordes, 1940)
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