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    'Wekdidusinra' rose Description
    'White Licorice™ (Floribunda, Bedard, 2009)' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of Glenn Franco Simmons
    Availability:
    Commercially available
    Synonyms:
    • White Licorice™
    HMF Ratings:
    66 favorite votes.  
    Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
    ARS:
    Light yellow Floribunda.
    Registration name: Wekdidusinra
    Exhibition name: White Licorice™ (Floribunda, Bedard, 2009)
    Origin:
    Bred by Christian Bédard (United States, before 2007).
    Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2011 as 'White Licorice'.
    Class:
    Floribunda.  
    Bloom:
    Light yellow to white.  Strong, licorice fragrance.  33 to 70 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Pointed, ovoid buds.  
    Habit:
    Medium, bushy, upright.  Medium, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

    Height: 4' to 5' (120 to 150cm).  Width: 18" to 23" (45 to 60cm).
    Growing:
    Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.  
    Patents:
    United States - Patent No: PP 22,540  on  6 Mar 2012   VIEW USPTO PATENT
    Application No: 12/925,448  on  20 Oct 2010
    Inventors: Bedard; Christian (Brea, CA)
    It has as its seed parent the variety known as Distant Drums (not patented) and as its pollen parent the variety known as `MACivy` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,362).... description is of 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of October.
    Parentage:
    Distant Drums (shrub, Buck 1984) × Singing in the Rain
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