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'Gerdo' rose Description
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Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
12 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Apricot or apricot blend Floribunda.
Origin:
Discovered by Gerardus J.C. Duivenvoorden (Netherlands, 1977).
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Wholesale) in 1991 as 'Gerdo'.
Class:
Floribunda, Florists Rose.  
Bloom:
Light pink.  Strong fragrance.  30 to 32 petals.  Average diameter 3.25".  Medium to large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, globular bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Few or no prickles/thorns, upright.  Medium green foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Disease susceptibility: susceptible to blackspot , susceptible to Mildew.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 4,982  on  15 Feb 1983   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 06/224'623  on  12 Jan 1981
Inventor: Duivenvoorden; Gerardus J. C., Buitenkaag NL
This invention relates to a new variety of Floribunda rose. The plant is an upright bush rose for greenhouse cultivation. Its hardiness has not yet been tested. It is a sport which was discovered by applicant in May, 1977, as a bud mutation of a MERKO rose plant growing in a greenhouse in his nursery in Buitenkaag, Holland. Its vegatative type corresponds to the parent variety MERKO (known in the United States as MERCEDES and is described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,724), but, whereas the MERKO rose is strong orange in color, the new variety (GERDO) is light pink.
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