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'Maypole' rose Reviews & Comments
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25 FEB 12 by
 Max. E
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Is this plant extinct or is it still alive and or in commerce somewhere? Would be very useful to be introduced into commerce or cuttings sent to breeders. Could be useful for rose breeding for very cold hardy repeating roses without the use of china and multiflora, which contract RRD.
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To the best of my knowledge the rose is extinct. The last known plant was located at Robert Erskine's homestead as recently as 2000. I haven't tried searching the land location where it was originally found. Possibly it has survived.
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#2 of 4 posted
26 FEB 12 by
Max. E
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That's so sad, the best things are always lost it seems.
If you ever find possibly one still alive or another wild one like it in the area where it was found, please let me know, I'd be willing to buy cuttings and I'm sure others in Canada and here in the USA would love it as well to use in breeding if not to preserve Walter's work. A repeat blooming arkansana could help produce repeat blooming roses derived from north american natives that are immune to RRD.
Thank you very much for your quick response!
- Max
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#3 of 4 posted
14 NOV 14 by
Hardy
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There was reblooming arkansana floating around several years ago, which may be Maypole. It was sold in limited quantities by the White Rabbit nursery, but they're no longer around. A few people are still growing it, so (whether it's Maypole or not) there is yet hope of getting 3-4 flushes out of arkansana.
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On September 20, 2015 my sister and I visited the quarter section where the 'Maypole' rose was found. The whole quarter had been cleared and was treeless. We walked to the back fence line where there were a few poplars and collected some cuttings from the arkansana growing there. There was no indication they had double blossoms or even that they bloomed at all in the tall grass. Hopefully a couple will root.
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"Maypole - May be a natural hybrid. Three to four feet tall, woodsii type leaves, suffulta cluster type of blooming. Large light pink flowers; 5 to 15 petals, produced all summer on new and old wood. Long stems for wildling. Will set some seed to floribunda pollen." Walter Schowalter notes.
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"Maypole - R. arkansana or hybrid. Found by W. Schowalter on SE1/4 -18-38-1-W4. Height in wild not over 45 cm., under cultivation to 75 cm. Prickles on primary stems, few on laterals. Leaflets 9, deeply troughed. Leaf 9.0 cm, leaflets 3.8 x 1.2 to 1.5 elliptic. Flowers light pink, flat, petals to 15 produced on new wood and secondary, beginning at the end of June and continuing through the summer. Flowers in a corymb. No fruit available for measurement. Found on outside edge of poplar bluff." Walter Schowalter notes - ca 1960
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