'Ahimsa' Rose

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'Ahimsa' rose Description

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Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Orient Silk ™

HMF Ratings:

33 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium yellow Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Ahimsa
Exhibition name: Ahimsa

Origin:

Bred by M.S. Viraraghavan (India, before 1996).
Introduced in Canada by Hortico Inc. in 1996 as 'Orient Silk'.

Class:

Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Yellow. Moderate fragrance. 26 to 40 petals. Average diameter 5". Very large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Few or no prickles/thorns, upright. Large, semi-glossy, medium green foliage.

Height: 3' (90cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).

Breeder's notes:

“Ahimsa’ means ‘non-violence’ in Sanskrit, which is a basic tenet of Hinduism and Buddhism. It was the tenet very strictly adhered to by Mahatma Gandhi when he was waging a peaceful non-violent movement against the British Empire in India, ‘fighting’ for independence.
When we realized that this variety, a cross of Madame Charles Sauvage x (Pink Parfait x Royal Gold) had no prickles at all, we felt this would be a good name for this yellow hybrid tea rose ( especially as we had just finished a bout of rose pruning, and cutting the stems of ‘Ahimsa’ were, by comparison, such a pleasure!)

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Parentage:

seed:	Madame Charles Sauvage
pollen:	Pink Parfait × Royal Gold

Notes: