What is this?

General Discussion
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Can anyone identify this variety?

There are several plants growing near the public library here in Lawrenceburg, KY. It isn’t showy from a distance, but up close it is more interesting.

The back sides of the petals are darkened where the light hit them, but the fronts have a faint “hand-painted” pattern that is not affected by light.

Karl

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Looks like might be ‘Carefree Delight’… coincidentally, I think that’s what’s planted outside the library building at my workplace.

3

Tom,

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at ‘Carefree Delight’ on HelpMeFind, and there is some resemblance. But the one I saw has smaller flowers in larger clusters.

I should carry a ruler to show the size.

This picture gives a better view of the reverse.

Karl

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CD grows like a constrainted hybrid multiflora here, and it matches your pic. It was my first thought.

Which reminds me, I think Pink Meidiland’s stated parentage is wrong, and I think it descends from Candy Rose. That being said, usually only the Meidiland’s descending from hand painteds tend to look like the rose in your photo.

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I had another look at HelpMeFind and agree that what I photographed is Carefree Delight, even if the flowers are somewhat smaller than described.

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It is a highly mutable rose. Sometimes, even, the petals are blushed coral red. It is really only consistant in it’s airy growth pattern.

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Carefree Delight is somewhat easily ID’d by the humongus, sharp thorns-competes with MMonroe and GBurns in that catagory. It is hard to call them bristles. But a really dependable bloom machine in many zones.

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Tom,

I never should have doubted you. And thanks to PacificJade. HelpMeFInd gives the average flower size as 2.75 inches. I was seeing flowers about 1.5 or 1.75. Maybe it’s just the poor soil.

More pics

Karl

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Ive never seen them that large.

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Oh my goodness, I had to prune a “hedge” of them once, for an installation I was supervising, and the lady of the house declared that if they didn’t bloom so well all the time, she would have considered a different variety.