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'Pink Prophyta ™' rose Description

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Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
4 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Orange-pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: RUIkuiros
Origin:
Discovered by Kwerkerij Jan Kuiken (Netherlands, before 1996).
Introduced in Netherlands by De Ruiter's Nieuwe Rozen B.V. in 1998 as 'Pink Prophyta'.
Class:
Florists Rose, Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Salmon-pink.  None to mild fragrance.  25 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Medium, very double, borne mostly solitary, high-centered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Bushy.  Semi-glossy foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 39" (up to 100cm).  Width: up to 20" (up to 50cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Disease susceptibility: susceptible to Mildew.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  
Patents:
European Union - Application No: 96/0710  on  24 Jun 1996
Breeder: Jan Kuiken. Proposed denomination: RUIKUIROS.
 
United States - Patent No: PP 10,532  on  4 Aug 1998   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/759,606  on  5 Dec 1996
A new variety of hybrid tea rose plant producing salmon pink flowers of good form and suitable for growing under glass...The present invention relates to a new and distant variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea rose class which was discovered as a naturally occurring mutation in a controlled planting of the variety `Ruirovingt`, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8528.
Inventors: Kuiken; Kwekerij Jan (En Tzummarum, NL)
Assignee: De Ruiter's Nieuwe Rozen B.V. (Pl De Kwakel, NL)
Notes:
According to the US Patent for this rose, it is a sport of RUIrovingt. One of the interesting things about this rose is the long-lasting quality of the blooms both in the vase and on the bush Vaselife is about 15 to 20 days. Blooms on the plant can last more than 30 days. After the flowers fades, the color becomes greenish.