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'KORsupigel' rose Description
'Sunrise Vigorosa ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Michael Garhart
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
• Smile
• Sunrise Vigorosa ™
HMF Ratings:
11 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium yellow Shrub.
Exhibition name: Smile (shrub, Kordes, 1994)
Origin:
Bred by Tim Hermann Kordes (Germany, 1994).
Introduced in United States by Newflora™ LLC as 'Sunrise Vigorosa'.
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Wholesale) in 2007 as 'Smile'.
Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2009 as 'Sunrise Vigorosa'.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: Vigorosa® Collection)  
Bloom:
Yellow.  Mild fragrance.  40 to 60 petals.  Average diameter 2.25".  Medium, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters, cupped-to-flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Rounded buds.  
Habit:
Spreading.  Glossy, medium green, dense foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 16" (up to 40cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Growing:
Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower, garden or ground cover.  Vigorous.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.  
Patents:
European Union - Application No: 2007/0819
 
United States - Patent No: PP 19,601  on  30 Dec 2008   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 12/008,955  on  14 Jan 2008
The new variety of rose plant of the present invention originated from a controlled crossing in a breeding program of two distinct parents during the summer of 1994. The crossing was between an `un-named seedling` and an `un-named seedling`.
Parentage:
Unnamed Seedling × Unnamed Seedling
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