Breeding stock only

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Bred by Robert Neil Rippetoe (United States, 2007).

Hybrid Gigantea, Hybrid Helena, Hybrid Musk, Miniature, Cl., Species Cross.  

Pink blend.  Mild to strong fragrance.  Average diameter 1.5".  Medium, single (4-8 petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  

Tall, armed with thorns / prickles, climbing.  9 leaflets.  

Height: up to 12' (up to 365cm).  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Very vigorous.  

This is an experimental cross which has up to a 50% chance of producing a repeat flowering diploid miniature shrub or climber.

The pollen parent is an aberrant repeat flowering miniature approximately 3' high and 2' wide. The cross which produced it should have produced a once flowering miniature. It was bred by A.C. Tunningley.

Seed fertile.

First germination 1-1-07 from unchilled seed sown 8-14-06. First blossom April 2010.

Sent to Jonathan K. Windham of Lamar, SC in 2016.