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| I have a puzzle here. This immature plant is clearly a climber. It is clearly a China. It is the correct color to be what it was supposed to be: Cl. Cramoisi Superieur . . . And yet . . . It consistently produces blooms which are undeniably single. Not even semi-double. Little, dark red (Darker than shown here )single blooms with vivid golden stamens. Has anyone ever seen Cl. Cramoisi Superieur do this? |
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| While browsing HMF I came upon this photo of the non-climbing variety :-) |
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| Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I have never seen the bush form do that! |
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| I've had what goes around as 'Cl. Cramoisi Superieur' for quite a long time indeed. It's a very fine rose! Anyway, mine is own-root, should that enter into the question. But never has mine thrown a single blossom in all its many years. The peculiarity that I've noticed is that sometimes a particular branch's flowers will each form a hip; but generally the plant as a whole is hipless. |
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| Well, that's what I thought, Brent. ALL of the photos I can find of Cl CS are quite double, and look much like the blooms of the bush form. I DO think this own-root plant wants to be a climber, and if it will bloom well, I will keep it, but I just can't help thinking it is misidentified. And, it was a passalong-passalong. So I can't even go back to a nursery to question it. If it keeps blooming single-to-semi-double, I'll maybe just give it a study name, and not worry about it. (I looked at last year's photos, and it was blooming semi-double, then. |
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| Jeri, the second picture, above, is stunning. That color! The petals look like velvet!!! |
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| Yes. It's stunning -- but I just cannot believe it is really Cl. Cramoisi Superieur. For one thing, these blooms are really, really tiny. I think we'll give it a few more months, to see what it can do . . . |
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