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'Red Empress' rose Description
'Impératrice Rouge' rose photo
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Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
24 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium red Large-Flowered Climber.
Registration name: Red Empress
Origin:
Bred by Charles Mallerin (France, before 1956).
Introduced in France by EFR (Editions Françaises des Roses) in 1956 as 'Red Empress'.
Introduced in United States by Conard-Pyle (Star Roses) in 1956 as 'Red Empress'.
Class:
Climber, Large-Flowered Climber.  
Bloom:
Red, deep pink center.  Strong, tea fragrance.  30 to 35 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Medium to large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, leafy sepals, long sepals, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Climbing, well-branched, light prickles.  Medium foliage.  5 leaflets.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,573  on  26 Feb 1957   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 585,373  on  16 May 1956
...I utilized as the female parent a remontant climber bearing semi-double red flowers, shaded with ornge, this parent having benn derived from a cross of "Holstein"...with the variety named "Record" (unpatented). The male parent which I used was a hybrid tea rose bearing large and well-shapped orange-red floawers and derived from the same cross as that which produced the female parent, namely "Holstein" X "Record".
Notes:
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