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Rosa ‘Europeana’

OTHER NAMES

ORIGIN

Netherlands

BREEDER

Gerrit de Ruiter

LINEAGE

‘Ruth Leuwerik’ x ‘Rosemary Rose’

YEAR

1964

INTRODUCED BY

Conard-Pyle Co.; 1965

PLANT PATENT #

PP02540

TYPE

Floribunda

HABIT OF GROWTH

Upright, compact bush; well-branched

SIZE

2 ½ to 3 feet high and wide

FOLIAGE 

Compound with 5 to 7 oval leaflets; leathery; glossy; dark green; new leaves reddish; serrate margins; average thorns

FLOWER

Dark red; mild fragrance; 25 to 28 petals; double; 3 to 4 inches in diameter; cupped form; borne in clusters; blooms in flushes to continuous

HARDINESS 

USDA zones 5b to 9

LIGHT 

Full sun

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