Blanc Double de Coubert

This rose's location in the garden is the "old garden roses" section.

• Classification: Hybrid Rugosa   
• Flower Color:  white
• Flower Size:  4 inches
• Flower Form: large, semi-double
• Petal Count: 10-20   
• Fragrance: strong licorice  
• Repeat Bloomer: yes
• Foliage: leathery, wrinkled, dark green
• Plant Height: 4-7 feet  
• Plant Width: 5 feet
• Growth Habit: bushy, upright
• Disease Resistant: yes 
• Hybridizer: Charles Pierre Marie Cochet-Cochet (France)
• Registered: 1892
• Parentage:  ‘Rosa Rugosa’ x ‘Sombreuil’
• ARS* Rating: 8.1 (a solid to very good rose)
  *American Rose Society Rating
  

Awards:

• 1993 Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticulture Society

Notes:

• “One might call Rosa rugosa the shar-pei of roses, because of the furrows that quilt its leaves (rugosa means “wrinkled” in Latin).  And like the dog, it comes from Asia.  But the resemblance ends there.  As prickly as they come, this is not a plant you’ll ever want to pet.  The Swedish botanist Carol Peter Thunberg (as in Rosa rugosa thunbergii, this plant’s botanical name) was the first Westerner known to set eyes on a rugosa in Japan where the seaside native goes by ‘Hama-nasu’ or ‘Hama-nashi’. Thunberg apparently garbled these words into Ramanas, the term he used in his illustrated Flora Japonica of 1784. Hama means “beach.” Nasu (“eggplant”) and nashi (‘pear’) refer to rugosas’ large red hips, one of nature’s best sources for vitamin C.” --- Brenner & Scanniello (A Rose by Any Name, page 241).