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• "Marie's Pink Tea ROR"
• "Mrs Val Nash"

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Tea.

Discovered by Unknown Australian origin (Australia).

Found Rose, Hybrid Gigantea, Tea.  

Pink.  Blooms can come in a range of colours from palest pink to quite intense shades of pink which can have a salmon tone, a dusky lilac tone or a blue base (Darker outer petals, crepey texture. Glandular pedicels).  25 to 60 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Moderately full, in small clusters, cupped, rounded bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, pointed, wide oval buds.  

Tall, dense, rounded, spreading, well-branched.  Semi-glossy, dark green, dense foliage.  

Height: 9'10" (300cm).  Width: 9'10" (300cm).

Can be used for hedge.  Vigorous.  Blooms tend to ball in wet weather.  can be grown as a shrub.  drought resistant.  flowers drop off cleanly.  heat tolerant.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  

"Rose Hedge Cottage Pink" was found in Bridgetown, WA, by Lyn Joyce.
"Marie's Pink Tea" was found in Bridgetown, WA by Natalee Kuser.
"Mrs. Val Nash" was found at an old, abandoned and burnt out property in Nannup, WA by Patricia Routley. Refer 2010 ref.
Nannup and Bridgetown are adjacent country towns in the South West of Western Australia, probably 46ks apart. Sets hips with seeds.

There is more to be read in the Comments section on this Australian found tea rose. It is also included on page 200 of the book Tea Roses. Old Roses for Warm Gardens

Petals Round. Orbicular. Thick.
Pedicel rough, glandular.
Foliage Deep green, elliptical with larger terminal leaf.
Canes New canes purple, with a bloom (as in a plum skin) surface that can be wiped off.
Propagation Strikes readily from cuttings. Can layer itself when older heavier branches hit the ground.

Not 'Comtesse de Caserta' which has a smooth pedicel.
Not 'La Tosca' which has a slimmer receptacle and a lighter pink bloom.
Not 'Mme Segond Weber' 1907 which has a rounded leaf. Refer also photo comment.
Not 'Paul Nabonnand' which has a smooth pedicel.
Not Mme Damaizin. The 1910 reference to this line sounds right, but they are all fragrant and salmon.

Possibly 'Rose d'Evian', 1894
Possibly ‘Belle Allemande’ 1840, however B.A. was said to have very long sepals.
Possibly ‘Bougere’ 1832. Many characteristics seem similar, including very vigorous, rounded bush, strong prickles, foliage deep green, ovate-acuminate leaves, bristly pedicel, rounded ovary, bloom 3-4 inches, variable colour (white sometimes mentioned), thick petals.

Seems to be similar to Lady Mann at the St. Kilda Botanic Gardens, Victoria.