Family : Rosaceae
Class : Climbing Rose, Musk
Text and pictures © Giuseppe Mazza
English translation by Peter Thompson
A hybrid of Rosa moschata and Rosa multiflora , created in the USA in 1946 by Lester Rose Gardens.
Small, single flowers, white but suffused in pink at the apex, slightly perfumed.
As a Rambler it reaches almost 5 metres in height, but can be cultivated also without a support, as a shrub.
Parentage :
‘Kathleen’ × Seedling
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