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"Wood St. Buff Yellow" rose Description
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Photo courtesy of billy teabag
Bloom:
Light yellow. 60 to 80 petals. Average diameter 4". Very full (41+ petals) bloom form. Pointed buds.
Habit:
Few or no prickles/thorns. Medium green foliage.
Height: 4'4" (130cm).
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
"Wood St. Buff Yellow" was originally growing on a farm near Balingup, Western Australia. A cutting grown plant was taken in the 1960s to Wood Street.
Inflorescence: Solitary - or in threes?
Bloom: 8-10cm. Variable colour. Soft buff-yellow to a rich buttery yellow or apricot, sometimes with a pink tone on the reverse. Colour changes on picked blooms are extreme, ageing to yellow. Double. cupped. A little similar to a 'Reve d'Or' bloom.
Bud: Pink or carmine stripe on buds. Short, smooth, slender, pointed.
Petals: Rounded.
Pedicel: Upright, but curving with age? Basically smooth, but with tiny prickles that are barely visible and that rub off at the slightest touch. Glandular.
Receptacle: Cup-shaped or rounded. Looks smooth but finely pimpled with an occasional gland.
Hips:
Sepals: Non-glandular, but textured.
Leaf: New - Red-brown to intense purple or burgundy. Older - sparse and mid green. Surface has a smooth lustre. Margins undulate, deeply serrated, rolled edges, and thorns under. Broadening with age. In spring the new foliage seems particular dense.
Stipule:
Prickles: Few prickles, dehiscent.
Bush: Open, twiggy
Possibilities
'Marquise de Sinéty' 1906. The bloom colour doesn't quite match, but the "beetroot" foliage certainly does.
'Mrs. S. T. Wright' (Sport of ‘Harry Kirk’. )
'Mme. Falcot. - thorns?
Discarded Identifications
Cornelia Cook’, seedling from Devoniensis. ‘D’ has red-purple new foliage. ‘CC’ was thornless. Colour of ‘CC’ may be too white though and it had large buds.
'Lady Plymouth' - grows too tall
Mme. Charles - said to have long buds
Mme. Constant Soupert - possibly too yellow, said to have long buds.
'Mrs. Dudley Cross' - Pink edges to bloom. New foliage is red-brown and not the intense purple of "Wood St".
'Reve d'Or'. - Taller than the foundling.
'Steadfast' - the 1940 reference, presumably written by Alister Clark, describes 'Steadfast' as "semi-double".
'Sunset' - Too orange. Has prickles. Foliage was deeply serrated. Said to be more vigorous than its parent 'Perle des Jardins'.
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