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Discussion id : 116-706
most recent 12 MAY 19 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 11 MAY 19 by Michael Garhart
Since this is a diploid, the parentage of the canina Coutts used is very suspect.
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 12 MAY 19 by Margit Schowalter
Michael
I doubt there is any way to confirm this one way or another as the canina parent came from seeds supplied by Percy Wright. Mr. Coutts didn't think the resulting rose was canina either.

"Percy Wright visited Mr. Coutts on several occasions since he was keenly interested in his fruit breeding work. In the late l97O’s, Mr. Wright gave Mr. Coutts seeds of Rosa canina from a location 180 kilometres north of Oslo, Norway. In his notes, Mr. Coutts wrote: “I think it was a hybrid as it was a nice pink flowered rose with I7 petals.” From this seedling (Rose #1), he hybridized several roses."
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 12 MAY 19 by Michael Garhart
He is likely right. Makes ya wonder what the plausibly real species or species hybrid was. Spino? Laxa? Maybe they confused Laxa with R. laxa? Who knows. Probably no one knows.
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