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'Topkapi Palace' rose Description
'Topkapi Palace' rose photo
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
10 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Deep pink Shrub.
Registration name: POUlthe
Origin:
Discovered by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, 1990). Discovered by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, 1990).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 1996 as 'Topkapi Palace'.
Class:
Floribunda, Mini-Flora, Patio.   (Series: Palace ® Collection)  
Bloom:
Deep pink.  Mild fragrance.  55 to 60 petals.  Average diameter 1.75".  Small to medium, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, flat, globular, reflexed, rosette bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Medium foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 16" to 30" (40 to 75cm).  Width: up to 30" (up to 75cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  
Patents:
Canada - Patent No: 0523  on  21 Sep 1998
Application No: 95-644  on  29 Sep 1995
Rights surrendered on August 22, 2011.
Denomination: 'POULthe'
Trade name: Topkapi Palace
 
European Union - Patent No: 305  on  2 Aug 1996
Application No: 19950435  on  2 Aug 1995
Holder: Poulsen Roser ApS. Denomination approved: POULTHE.
First commercialisation in EU: 27(01/1993
Expiry of protection on February 1, 2018.
 
United States - Patent No: PP 10,883  on  4 May 1999   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/865,462  on  29 May 1997
Inventors: Olesen; L. Pernille (Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Mogens N. (Fredensborg, DK)
The present discovery constitutes a new and distinct variety of floribunda rose plant which was discovered in the spring of 1990 in a cultivated area. The mutation resulted from a naturally occurring mutation of unknown causation discovered in a controlled planting as a branch of`POULskov`
Notes:
Arena Roses describes the blooms as hot pink randomly streaked with a cream stripe or edge...