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"Polly E. M. Blieschke Pink Granny" rose Description
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Photo courtesy of Ozoldroser
Origin:
Discovered by Pat Toolan (Australia, 2017).
Class:
Found Rose.  
Bloom:
Pink or light pink, lighter reverse.  Strong, opinions vary fragrance.  up to 40 petals.  Average diameter 4.5".  Semi-double to double, borne mostly solitary, flat to cupped, reflexed bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Pointed buds.  
Habit:
Rounded, upright.  Matte, light green foliage.  
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
From a grandmother's farm in Melrose, South Australia. Estimated to have been growing prior to 1930. The original bush had been 5'. Conserved by the grandaughter as cutting-grown plants, but it is difficult to strike and plants have only achieved 3'6" after two years.

PETALS: recurve back on themselves in the manner of 'La France'. White streaks in the petaloids. Blooms drop petals suddenly. Newer flowers form with the two tone pink.
FRAGRANCE: strong and sharp
PEDICEL: lightly glandular.
SEPALS: pedicellately glandular, ovate-acuminate, tiny folioles.
FOLIAGE: light green, matt and orbicular, (rounded).
PRICKLES: new - cream. Small, sharp, straight but with a downward angle.
BUSH: green stems. Like a bourbon plant
 
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