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'Drop Dead Red' rose Description
'Drop Dead Red' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Penelope's Texas Paradise
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
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Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
ARS:
Dark red Floribunda.
Registration name: WEKcharlie
Exhibition name: Drop Dead Red
Origin:
Bred by Tom Carruth (United States, before 2007).
Class:
Floribunda.  
Bloom:
Dark velvet red.  Mild, tea fragrance.  20 to 26 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, double (17-25 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Medium, bushy, upright.  Medium, glossy, dark green foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: 33" to 39" (85 to 100cm).  Width: 2' to 28" (60 to 70cm).
Growing:
Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower, garden or landscape.  Drought resistant.  heat tolerant.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 22,571  on  13 Mar 2012   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 12/927,751  on  22 Nov 2010
Inventors: Carruth; Thomas F. (Altadena, CA)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Floribunda Rose. It has as its seed parent the variety known as `WEKsanpoly` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,513) and as its pollen parent the variety known as `ADHarman` (not patented).... description is of 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of November.
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