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'Sunlight' rose Description
'Sunlight (hybrid tea, Meilland 1955)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of James Delahanty
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
15 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium yellow Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Sunlight (hybrid tea, Meilland 1955)
Origin:
Bred by Francis Meilland (1912-1958) (France, before 1955).
Introduced in France by URS (Universal Rose Selection)-Meilland in 1957 as 'Grisbi'.
Introduced in United States by Conard-Pyle (Star Roses) in 1958 as 'Sunlight'.
Introduced in Australia by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. in 1959 as 'Grisbi'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Yellow.  Moderate, tea fragrance.  43 to 48 petals.  Average diameter 3.75".  Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, leafy sepals, long sepals, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Bushy, upright, well-branched.  Medium, dark green, leathery foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
France - Application No: xx  on  29 Jul 1955
 
United States - Patent No: PP 1,576  on  12 Mar 1957   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 588,594  on  31 May 1956
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