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There should be a new entry for rose, which should be called R. Banksiae “Fragrant Snowflake,” that Dr Basye created but wasn’t put here on helpmefind. In “Rose Rustlers,” by Greg Grant and William C. Welch, they quote from Dr. Basye saying:
‘This kindly old gentleman [Domenico Aicardi], then in his upper seventies, responded by sending me a generous handful of banksiae seeds, which must have taken him several hours to extract from the very small hips of banksiae. I have never forgotten his generosity.’
Then Grant and Welch wrote:
“Starting in 1969 […] Dr. Basye went on to use one of these new single thornless white banksias to produce his 85-04 ‘‘Thornless Fortuniana' rootstock, which he bred in 1984.
“I took cuttings of Dr. Basye's single white banksia with me as a historical curiosity and later planted it in my garden in Arcadia. Though not as showy as the double white Lady Banks, it is the most fragrant rose I've ever grown. [[…] I later named Dr. Basye's seedling 'Fragrant Snowflake and also sold it at our SFA Gardens plant sales.”
The single banks rose in commerce could be from Dr. Basye I think.
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It is growing at Heritage Rose Garden under as "Enrique's Pink China."
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12 FEB 24 by
 jedmar
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Synonym added, thank you!
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I rooted this plant in water years ago (2003), and planted in a pot. It always suffered, having dried out several times in a 9 inch pot. I imagine that this could easily be invasive. I moved it in a nicer and bigger pot, and it flowered a few times even when I haven't paid any attention it. I wonder why it's not in more gardens.
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Precisely because it IS invasive, Enrique. I've grown it and enjoyed it, BUT, and this is an enormous, "BUT", it propagates itself profusely, even when conditions don't seem conducive to it. I raised several seedlings from it including Double Poterifolia.
http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.65264&tab=1
Which I had to let go due to room and how invasive it was. And, I grow Poterifolia X Old Blush, which I have to keep dried out and starved in a can on pavers to prevent it from helping itself to the surrounding area.
I've heard poterifolia is used as a ground cover around ski chalets where snow cover permits skiing right up to the doors of the buildings, over the rose. I agree it's a lovely, interesting "little" rose, but only if you have the acreage it demands.
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styrax
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The specimen in my local botanic garden formed a 20 foot wide mat, right up to the trunk of an oak tree (and would grow wider if they let it!): it's the only 'true' groundcover rose I've seen, dense enough to keep weeds from growing. It would be interesting to see how it grows in it's native habitat.
I'm sure with some effort, it could produce much better landscape roses than those available on the market, but the thought of all the once-blooming behemoths it is sure to produce is discouraging.
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Mazatlan China could also be The China From Adina. If it is, then we will know that it was rose that may had been circulated in a nursery at one point instead of being a volunteer seedling.
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