Believed extinct or lost

• VOOtutu

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White, near white or white blend Miniature.
Registration name: VOOtutu
Exhibition name: Rose Tutu

Bred by Simon Voorwinde (Australia, 2007).

Miniature.  

Soft shell pink overtones on some flowers..  Average diameter 1.25".  Small, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, in large clusters, button-eye, flat bloom form.  Moderate, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small buds.  

Short, few or no prickles/thorns, spreading, well-branched.  Small, glossy, medium green, edged purple-red foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 8" (up to 20cm).  Width: 2' to 39" (60 to 100cm).

Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, ground cover, hanging basket or rock garden.  Vigorous.  drought resistant.  heat tolerant.  prefers full sun.  rain tolerant.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, very blackspot resistant., very mildew resistant, very rust resistant.  Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..  Do not prune.  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  

Strikes easily from cuttings. This rose spreads to about 1m square and barely reaches 20cm high. It is not a rampant grower, taking about 4 years to reach this size. I have only ever found one thorn on the original plant. Well behaved shapely plant which I attribute to its ability to grow on its own roots. It has never been grafted so it may more vigorous and less shapely if pushed along by a more vigorous rootstock. Hardly stops flowering. It is a tenacious plant. A clone of the original plant is growing in the test bed where it was repeatedly almost scratched out of the ground by wallabies that invade the beds at night. Not only did it survive, it recovered each time and is still building in size. Named 'Rose Tutu' as it reminds me of lots of little white frilly tutus and is a play on words, suggested by my daughter, of the old Australian soft rock band Rose Tattoo.