'Prolifera de Redouté' Rose

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'Prolifera de Redouté' rose Description

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Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• A roses foliées
• Childing
• Childing Provence
• Childing's Provence
• Isabel (syn. for 'Prolifère')
• Mère gigogne (centifolia, Unknown, pre 1820)
• Prolifère (centifolia, Unknown pre 1759)
• Rosa centifolia prolifera
• Rosa centifolia prolifera foliacea
• Rosa prolifera Hort. ex Steud.
• Rosa provincialis prolifera

HMF Ratings:

86 favorite votes.
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.

ARS:

Medium pink Centifolia.

Origin:

Bred by Unknown (before 1759).
Discovered by Unknown (before 1759).

Class:

Centifolia, Hybrid Gallica.

Bloom:

Deep pink. Proliferating blooms and foliaceaus sepals. Strong fragrance. Double (17-25 petals), full (26-40 petals), globular, open bloom form. Once-blooming spring or summer. Leafy sepals, long sepals buds.

Habit:

Armed with thorns / prickles, upright. 5 leaflets.

Height: up to 6' (up to 185cm). Width: up to 5' (up to 150cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 4b through 9b. Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood.. Prune after flowering is finished.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Parentage:

sport of Centfeuilles des Peintres

Notes:

Source: L'Haÿ-les-roses Label
The original rose had up to a dozen bud proliferations in the bloom.
A hybrid centifolia. See also the gallica and china 'Mère Gigogne'.

[According to the "Universal Etymological English Dictionary" of Nathan Bailey (1737):]
Childing (among Botanists) is a Term used of Plants, when the Offspring exceeds the Number of the Kind, as Childing Daisies.
Also: "Childing is an old term in botany, when a small flower grows out of a large one" (1813) [= Proliferation]]