"William Anderson" rose Description
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Photo courtesy of Jane Z
Class:
Found Rose, Hybrid Tea, Tea.
Bloom:
White. Can show pink colouring. Sometimes quilled. Can proliferate badly. Nodding or "weak neck", pinpoint centers bloom form.
Habit:
Armed with thorns / prickles, upright.
Growing:
Blooms tend to ball in wet weather. Disease susceptibility: susceptible to Mildew.
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
"Alice Emma Hanks" and "William Anderson" both found at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.
BOTANICAL DETAILS SUMMARY done by Hillary M mid-October (spring) 2013, on a single observation.
INFLORESCENCE: (Number of flowers, describe pedicels, bracts) This specimen solitary. Pedicel scungy-looking but not glandular. Long narrow bracts at base of pedicels.
BUD: (shape, colour and sepals) Plump, pointed; cream washed pink.
SEPALS: No glands on backs, long leaves on ends of some.
FLOWER SIZE AND SHAPE:( size, number of petals, shape) 9 cm. Very double. Opens cup-shaped. Outer petals reflex.
COLOUR: Cream, outer petals faintly washed pink. Nubs bright yellow, giving a glow to the flower colour.
PETAL SHAPE AND TEXTURE: Medium texture, rather irregular in shape.
STAMENS AND CARPALS Some stamens, green carpals in centre and some with stigmas.
RECEPTACLE: (include mature hip) Medium-sized upright cup, some with squareish base
FRAGRANCE: Dry Tea.
LEAVES: (shape, size, colour, edges; rachis, glands, prickles, stipules etc) 3-5 leaflets, ovate. Look wrinkly but this could be due to mildew. Leaves shiny when young and leathery with indented veins when older. Small, hooked prickles under rachis. ?Mid-green in colour. Medium serrations, fairly flat. Stipules, narrow, elongated.
BUSH: (height, density of foliage, growth habit, stems and branches, prickles, vigour) Prickles dark red, shiny, Downturned with gently curved upper surface/ Some are twinned, or just offset twinned.
Similar to, but different, and larger foliage than "Peace's Perfect White"
Similar to, but different from 'White Maman Cochet', 1896.
Similar to 'Mlle. Franziska Kruger', but does not have the same colour range, nor growth habit
Mentioned in Jane Zammit's list of Rookwood roses August 10, 2007 as: Tea, photo in TN’s book or original, can ball, lovely when good.
Document from Pat Toolan July 11, 1987 [this year uncertain] mentions: “William Anderson” Bush to 5ft. Large cream tea. Plate 89 in Trevor Nottle’s book. Grows near Obelisk near the Frazer Mausoleum.
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