Newsletter (Apr 2022) Page(s) 6. No. 25.
Pat Toolan, Rose Rustling in the Barossa Valley.
.....One has been given the study name of “Mrs Heggie’s Red Tea” and is notable for the way its colour changes during the year – cream, red, ochre or golden yellow. This rose was thought to match the ‘Papillon’ [Nabonnand, 1878] but ‘Papillon’ has not yet been found in any early Australian rose catalogues. We now believe that it may be the Tea rose, ‘Beauté Inconstante’ [Pernet-Ducher, 1892] which was listed in several South Australian nursery catalogues, including E B Heyne (1900), E & W Hackett (1912), Henry Sewell (1914) and Lasscock’s Nurseries (1914 & 1922). It was also listed in many interstate catalogues.
Booklet (2022) Page(s) 48-49. Includes photo(s).
"Mrs. Heggie's Red Tea"
Magazine (2019) Page(s) 51. Vol 41, No. 1.
Margaret Furness. Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia
What is sold here as Papillon is incorrect. It matches the Beauté Inconstante seen in overseas collections, and is the same as “Mrs Heggie’s Red Tea” from ‘Almerta’. A fickle beauty varying in colour with the season.
Newsletter (Nov 2018) Page(s) 11. Includes photo(s).
[From "The Widows Three, the Roses Twelve", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 10-14]
A 1900 E. Horton & Co. catalogue provides this description: A wonderful rose, deriving its name of “Inconstant Beauty” from producing flowers of different shades on the same plant. The colours vary from crimson to light pink through shades of tawny red, light yellow with orange and citron-red centre, pale flesh with pink centre, orange chrome and deep rose— all these colours being frequently seen on one bush at the same time.
Magazine (2015) Page(s) 28. Vol 37. No. 3.
Hillary Merrifield, Billy West and Lynne Chapman. Renmark Repository April 2015.
Recorded on previous visits (to Renmark). Probable identities are given in brackets.
"Almerta Mrs. Heggie's Tea" ('Beaute Inconstante).
Book (2011) Page(s) 114. Includes photo(s).
p111. Photo, bush. "Almerta Mrs. Heggie's Red Tea" (photo by Margaret Furness.)
p114 Photo, bloom. Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia.
'Papillon' as sold in Australia is probably 'Beaute Inconstante' (1892). This variably colored rose was also found in South Australia and given the study name of "Almerta Mrs. Heggie's red Tea". It has been seen in Bermuda under the name of 'Papa Gontier'.
Book (2011) Page(s) 114.
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia.
'Papillon' as sold in Australia is probably 'Beaute Inconstante' (1892). This variably colored rose was also found in South Australia and given the study name of "Almerta Mrs. Heggie's red Tea". It has been seen in Bermuda under the name of 'Papa Gontier’.
Photo, bloom
Book (2008) Page(s) 166.
The Australian "Papillon" is a tall shrub rather than a climber, with Tea-like flowers in many colours, usually carried singly or in small clusters. What appears to be the same rose has been found on a property in South Australia and given the study name “Almerta Mrs. Heggie’s Red Tea”. It was planted in a row of roses along the edge of a vineyard before 1920. Several of these roses still survive, among them ‘Maman Cochet’ and ‘Mlle. Cecile Brunner’, and their continuing presence is documented by a panoramic photograph of 1929 and an aerial photograph of 1949. (Jen Light, personal communication, 2003; Pat Toolan, personal communication, 2004)
Book (15 Oct 2001) Page(s) 87.
Phillip Robinson. Tea Roses. Beaute Inconstante (1892) came to me from the Antique Rose Emporium in Texas. There is much confusion about this rose. It should be a vigorous climber according to some authors. I tentatively suggest that this may be 'Comtesse Riza du Parc' (1876) of the "bronzed rose" color according to Henry Ellwanger's description.
Book (Sep 1993) Page(s) 70. Includes photo(s).
Beauté Inconstante Tea. Joseph Pernet-Ducher 1892... many years ago this was one of the most beautiful roses... no two flowers are ever the same, though they usually fall in the salmon-pink to cerise range. It can be pale and blushing or almost scarlet... Parentage unknown.
