"Came as "Miss Hatch's Old Cabbage"" rose Description
Photo courtesy of Patricia Routley
Bloom:
Pink blend, lighter reverse. Flowering only at the tips of canes or laterals. Cordate petal shape. Pedicel stiff, prickly-glandular. Elongated receptacle. 23 petals. Average diameter 3.25". Flat bloom form.
Habit:
Height: up to 39" (up to 100cm).
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Possibly 'Portlandica'
Foliage: sparse. New leaves have a pinky-brown tint to the underside. Smooth, both upper and lower surfaces.
Prickles: the new young prickles have this same tint.
Stipule: Pedicelate glandular. Narrowing in the middle where the edges turn under towards the leaf rachis.
Auricles: widely diverging
Prickles: Many, small and varying sizes, scattered. Prickles are more downward curving than Redoute’s cover illustration of 'Portlandica' thorns which are almost horizontal. They do rub off
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