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'AROkish' rose Description
'Valerie Swane' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Deborah Matthews
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
4 favorite votes.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Floribunda.
Registration name: AROkish
Origin:
Bred by Jack E. Christensen (United States, 1987).
Class:
Floribunda.  
Bloom:
White or white blend.  Strong, spice, sweet fragrance.  30 to 35 petals.  Average diameter 5".  Double (17-25 petals), high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 6,796  on  9 May 1989   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 07/132,575  on  14 Dec 1987
first originated by Jack E. Christensen in Ontario, Calif., U.S.A. under conditions of careful control and observation, and has as its seed parent the floribunda rose, Deep Purple (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,672), and as its pollen parent, an unnamed rose seedling selected from the progeny of the cross fertilization between the hybrid tea rose, Ivory Tower (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,658) and the floribunda rose, Angel Face (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,792).
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