'Baby Château' Rose

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'Baby Château' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of jedmar

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Baby Vougeot
• Château

HMF Ratings:

19 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium red Floribunda.
Registration name: Baby Château

Origin:

Bred by Wilhelm J.H. Kordes II (ca. 1918 - 1955) (Germany, 1936).

Class:

Floribunda, Polyantha.

Bloom:

Crimson. Mild to strong fragrance. Large, double (17-25 petals), cluster-flowered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Upright, well-branched. Glossy, dense foliage.

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).

Parentage:

seed:	Aroma
pollen:	Eva (Hybrid Musk, Kordes, 1933) × Ami Quinard (hybrid tea, Mallerin, 1927)

Notes:

In the RNRS's 1953 The Rose Annual article "Kordes' Masterpiece," Wilhelm Kordes says, "The pollen from this ['Ami Quinard'] gave me a near black but badly burning seedling with 'Robin Hood' (Pemberton's) as seed parent. The pollen from this again on to long forgotten 'Aroma' gave me 'Baby Chateau' . . .."

The parentage Kordes gives here, Aroma x (Robin Hood x Ami Quinard), differs from what has been listed in Modern Roses.

This discrepancy was pointed out by one of our members, Robert Rippetoe.