| Pink to red flowering selection. Cuttings are quicker to bear and will be true to color. Seedlings can have genetic variability with the color, possibly even being white. Single flowers with large yellow stamens at center are spangled throughout dense shrubby bushes most of the summer. Large edible reddish-orange hips late summer through fall, as well as colorful yellow to orange mottled fall leaf color. Red Rugosa Rose makes a great hedge plant due to thorny and thick canes that colonize into wide rows. Grows to about 6 ft. tall by 6 ft. wide. Most disease-resistant rose variety; will even flower in part shade. Variety 'Rubra'. Zone 3-10. |
