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'Fire Opal' rose Description
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'Fire Opal Kolorscape ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Robert Neil Rippetoe
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
5 favorite votes.  
Average rating: GOOD+.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Floribunda.
Exhibition name: Fire Opal
Origin:
Bred by Tim Hermann Kordes (Germany, 2002).
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Retail) in 2014 as 'Roseromantic'.
Introduced in Japan by Keisei Rose Nurseries Inc. in 2016 as 'Gretel'.
Introduced in Australia by Treloar Roses in 2018 as 'Fire Opal'.
Class:
Floribunda.   (Series: Kolorscape® Collection)  
Bloom:
Cream, ages to salmon-pink .  None / no fragrance.  up to 15 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, semi-double (9-16 petals), cluster-flowered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Bushy, compact, dense.  Glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: up to 28" (up to 70cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 26,309  on  19 Jan 2015   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 13/998,458  on  1 Nov 2013
The new variety of rose plant of the present invention originated from a controlled crossing in a breeding program of two distinct parents during the summer of 2002. The crossing was between an un-named seedling, the seed parent, and another un-named seedling, the pollen parent by the same inventor.
Notes:
Source: Gretel