Believed extinct or lost

2 favorite votes.  

Medium pink.

Bred by A.C. Tunningley (United States, 2006).

Hybrid Gigantea.  

Pink.  None to mild fragrance.  Average diameter 3".  Large, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  

Tall, climbing.  

Height: 15' to 20' (455 to 610cm).  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Very vigorous.  

3-15-07 A.C. Tunningley

"Secunda started shedding it's petals tonight, which is 20 days and about 12 hours from the time of the first open flower. Happily, this is happening with no browning at all. I guess the sequence has turned out to be 3-4 days of nice form, then a few weeks of limp pink handkerchiefs followed by petal fall."

Pollen for this cross supplied by Jill Perry from plants distributed by seed grown by William Grant.

R. gigantea here is the Indian form as discovered and supplied by Viru and Girija Viraraghavan.

Proven seed parent. Carries gene for remontancy.


Cut back hard Summer of 2015, the plant never recovered. Paul Barden says he lost his specimen in the hard freeze of 2014.

Notes provided by Robert Neil Rippetoe