Wow that’s a really cool cross! Very pretty flower and foliage, and with fertility to boot! Very interesting that there was two seedlings with juvenile or at least early-ish bloom even from a cross with straight rugosa. May I ask: how many siblings were there in total? It would be interesting to get an idea of the proportion.
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I believe there were seven or eight total seedlings that survived long enough to go outside (this wasn’t a particularly serious cross, so I didn’t track it as closely as some others). Some others died before even reaching the point of flowering–mostly because they took so long, but cane borers don’t wait, and I let the area where they were planted get a bit overgrown with other plants. Just one more sibling managed to flower after a couple of years, but it did not have a particularly good flower color or shape and had more blackspot.
This photo didn’t quite capture the color right, but here was the other relatively precocious seedling from the cross:
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2/8 is really good! Much better than I would have expected to happen.
Thank you for sharing your results @MidAtlas ! That’s a large and lovely flower. Very interesting to see what that combo between Rugosa Alba and Mutabilis can do.
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