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'Etoile du Portugal' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Jay-Jay
HMF Ratings:
14 favorite votes.
Average rating:
GOOD+.
Bloom:
Salmon-pink and carmine-pink, yellow undertones. Mild fragrance. Large, double (17-25 petals), borne mostly solitary bloom form. Once-blooming spring or summer.
Habit:
Climbing.
Height: up to 12' (up to 365cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Hardy. very vigorous.
Breeder's notes:
Etoile de Portugal is the product of Rosa gigantea X Reine Marie-Henriette. This plant bloomed for the first time in the Botanical Gardens of Lisbon in 1903. It is of luxuriant browth and seems to have inherited from Reine Marie-Henriette its great abundance of flowers. The elongated buds are often borne by twos or threes on the same flower stalk. The blossom is large, full and fragrant, of a lustrous carmine rose color, shaded to yellow at the base of the petals, which become a lighter color when in full bloom. It should be grown in a temperate climate if one wishes the plant to reach its maximum development and produce in abundance its masses of flowers, of such brilliant and delicate coloring. H. Cayeux, Jour. of Heredity (1929) at p. 307.
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Parentage uncertain, see References.
Was sold as 'Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou' by Beales - see References.
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