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Rosa ‘Pink Peace’ ‘MEIbil’

OTHER NAMES

ORIGIN

France

BREEDER

Francis Meilland

LINEAGE

(Peace x Monique) x (Peace x Mrs. John Laing)

YEAR

1958

INTRODUCED BY

Conard-Pyle Company – United States

PLANT PATENT #

USPP01759

TYPE

Hybrid Tea

HABIT OF GROWTH

Tall, upright bush

SIZE

3 to 5 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide

FOLIAGE 

Compound with 5 oval leaflets; leathery; simple serrate margins; dark green; new leaves lightly tinged with red; average thorns

FLOWER

Pink; very double; 50 to 60 petals; 5 to 5 ½ inches in diameter; strong tea fragrance; long, pointed ovoid buds; initially high-centered, aging to cupped; borne mostly singly; blooms continuously throughout the growing season

HARDINESS 

USDA zones 7b to 10

LIGHT 

Full sun

OTHER

Has shown above average resistance to powdery mildew and blackspot