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'AUSchris' rose Description
'Kate (florists rose, Austin, 2011/14)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of more_roses._.please
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
2 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
Origin:
Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, 2004).
Introduced in United Kingdom by David Austin Roses Limited (UK) in 2014 as 'Kate'.
Class:
Florists Rose, Shrub.   (Series: English Rose Collection)  
Bloom:
Fuchsia / magenta - pink, yellow undertones, ages to purple .  Geranium, raspberry, rose fragrance.  up to 65 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped-to-flat bloom form.  Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.  Long, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Grey-green, leathery foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 4¼' (up to 130cm).  Width: up to 30" (up to 75cm).
Patents:
Australia - Patent  on  1 Sep 2014
Application No: 2014/166  on  21 Jul 2014   VIEW PBR PATENT
In 2004, an unnamed seedling was selected to be the mother and an unnamed seedling to be the father. The resulting seed was sown in January 2005, resulting in a number of seedlings. The best of these seedlings was then selected. From this plant, two buds were taken and grafted (using the 'T'-budding method) onto Rosa Inermis rootstock under glass. Two years later, the variety was considered good enough for increasing by stenting to six plants. The following year it was selected again and gradually it was increased by vegetative propagation to ninety plants which were kept and monitored at the David Austin Roses Nursery in Albrighton prior to introduction as a commercial cut-flower rose in 2011.
 
European Union - Application No: 2012/00765  on  3 Apr 2012
 
United States - Patent No: PP 24,462  on  20 May 2014   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 13/506,557  on  3 Apr 2012
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant named ‘AUSchris’, which was originated from the cross-pollination of the two ‘unnamed’ seedlings of Rosa hybrida. ..The following description is of 1 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown indoors in a greenhouse in Albrighton, Britain in the month of October.
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