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'TWOaebi' rose Description
'Acapulco Sunset' rose photo
Photo courtesy of chicochi3
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
• Acapulco Sunset
• Dream Orange ™
HMF Ratings:
28 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Orange blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: TWOaebi
Exhibition name: Dream Orange ™
Origin:
Bred by Jerry F. Twomey (United States, 1995).
Introduced in United States by Anthony Tesselaar USA, Inc. in 1999 as 'Dream Orange'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Orange-red.  Mild fragrance.  up to 57 petals.  Average diameter 4.25".  Large, very full (41+ petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Rounded buds.  
Habit:
Medium.  Medium, matte, medium green foliage.  

Height: 3' to 4' (90 to 120cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 7b and warmer.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  
Patents:
Australia - Patent No: AU2283P  on  1 Sep 2003
Application No: 1999/223  on  5 Aug 1999   VIEW PBR PATENT
seed parent ‘JACsal’ syn Cherish x pollen parent un-named seedling (‘JACeven’ syn Evening Star x ‘MACtrum’ syn Trumpeter. Hybridisation took place in Wasco, California, USA in 1995 ...Breeder: Jeremiah F. Twomey, Wasco, CA, USA
First sold in USA in Apr 1999. First Australian sale in Oct 2000.
 
Canada - Patent No: 1113  on  14 Jan 2002
Application No: 99-2050  on  24 Dec 1998
Rights revoked on May 31, 2006.
Breeder: Jeremiah Forster Twomey, Leucadia, United States of America
 
European Union - Patent  on  1999
 
New Zealand - Patent  on  1999
 
United States - Patent No: PP 11,525  on  26 Sep 2000   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 09/220,904  on  24 Dec 1998
Parentage according to the patent is: Cherish x unnamed red-flowered Floribunda seedling. TWOaebi was patented as a hybrid tea.
Parentage:
seed: Cherish
pollen: Evening Star ® (floribunda, Warriner, 1974) × Trumpeter
Notes: