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Tropicana®

The orange red colored hybrid tea rose named Tropicana.
This rose's location in the garden is SW 10.
This rose's location in the garden is SW 10.
  • Classification: Hybrid Tea   
  • Flower Color:  orange red
  • Flower Size: 5 inches
  • Flower Form: high-centered, borne mostly singly
  • Petal Count: 30-35  
  • Fragrance: intense fruity
  • Repeat Bloomer: yes
  • Foliage: dark, glossy, leathery
  • Plant Height: 4-6 feet
  • Plant Width: 3 feet
  • Growth Habit: upright
  • Disease Resistant: no 
  • Hybridizer: Mathias Tantau Jr. (Germany)
  • Registered: 1960
  • Parentage: (seedling x ‘Peace’) x (seedling x ‘Alpine Glow’)
  • ARS* Rating: 7.7 (a good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • 1963 AARS (All-America Rose Selections) award
 
Notes:
  • “Rosen Tantau (also RosenWelt Tantau) is a rose breeding company located at Uetersen, in the District of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important Rose farms worldwide, and has developed a large number of well-known rose cultivars. Founded in 1906 by Mathias Tantau (1882–1953), it became important in the 1930s. In 1948, his son Mathias Tantau (1912–2006) took over. He developed some famous hybrid tea roses, e.g. 'Polarstern', 'Super Star' or 'Fragrant Cloud', earning many rose awards - 'Fragrant Cloud' was awarded the title World's Favorite Rose in 1981. In 1985 Mathias Tantau sold the family business to Hans-Jürgen Evers (1940–2007), who had joined Tantau in 1963. From 2000 to 2007 his son Christian Evers was co-manager of the company he is leading today.

    The company has about 90 employees and 50 sales agencies around the world. Annually more than two million rose plants are sold worldwide at retail and wholesale, and as many by license for Australia, Japan, United States and Latin America. To date, the company brought more than 350 rose varieties on the market. Together with W. Kordes Söhne in Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, Germany, the company dominates 50 percent of the world market for cut roses. Rosen Tantau's cultivar 'Black Magic' is one of the most successful rose varieties ever.” --- (Wikipedia, “Rosen Tantau”) retrieved February 2021.
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