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'The Imposter' rose Description
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Photo courtesy of Kit
HMF Ratings:
43 favorite votes.
Average rating:
GOOD+.
ARS:
Pink blend Shrub.
Registration name: The Imposter (Shrub, Meilland, 2006)
Exhibition name: The Imposter
Bloom:
Pink, carmine-pink streaks, stripes, flecks. Flowers pink blend, with a paint-spattered look to petals, clematis-like. None / no fragrance. up to 5 petals. Average diameter 2.5". Medium, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Ovoid buds.
Habit:
Short, bushy, compact, mounded. Semi-glossy, medium green foliage. 3 to 7 leaflets.
Height: 30" to 3' (75 to 90cm). Width: 30" (75cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b through 9b. Can be used for beds and borders, container rose or garden. Heat tolerant. Disease susceptibility: susceptible to blackspot . Protect tender new spring growth from hard freezes that may cause canker, die-back and death of the plant. . Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom. Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 19,587 on 23 Dec 2008 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 11/586,714 on 26 Oct 2006 Inventors: Meilland; Alain A. (Antibes, FR)
The female parent (i.e., the seed parent) was the product of the cross of the `Bucbi` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,225) and the `Macpic` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,351). The male parent (i.e., the pollen parent) of the new variety was the product of the cross of the `Meipoque` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,956) and the `Applejack` variety (non-patented in the United States). ....description is based on the observation of two-year-old specimens of the new variety
Notes:
The bloom has an almost "hand painted" look.
R. laxa Retzius is in the breeding of both reported parents of The Imposter. It is the pollen parent of Applejack, a grandparent of The Imposter and a grandparent of Carefree Beauty (which is also a grandparent of The Imposter). Such an ancestry should give this variety good cold hardiness, but it struggles to survive in USDA Zone 4.
Ploidy information from David Zlesak.
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