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'Reno' rose Description
'Reno' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
HMF Ratings:
5 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium pink Grandiflora.
Registration name: Reno
Origin:
Bred by William E. Silva (United States, 1948).
Introduced in United States by Booy Rose Nursery in 1957 as 'Reno'.
Class:
Grandiflora.  
Bloom:
Coral-pink, salmon-pink shading.  Moderate fragrance.  16 to 20 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Medium, semi-double to double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, globular bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Long, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Well-branched.  Medium green foliage.  

Height: up to 4' (up to 120cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,690  on  11 Mar 1958   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 668,275  on  26 Jun 1957
William E. Silva, Sebastopol, Calif., assignor to Peter J. Booy Rose Nursery, San Jacinto, Calif., a partnership consisting of Peter J. Booy and Henry F. Eckardt
The new variety of rose plant ...is a cross between Henri Guillot ... and Mrs. Sam McGredy...which was made in 1948 at Sebastopol, California....
Seed parent.- Henri Guillot (Pat. No. 337)
Pollen parent.- Mrs. Sam McGredy (unpatented).
Classification: Botanic, Grandiflora.
Notes:
Parentage as per the patent application. MR 11 juxtaposes seed and pollen parent.