This cultivar is listed as triploid in the paper 'Pollen diameter and guard cell length as predictors of ploidy in diverse rose cultivars, species, and breeding lines'
A year later and it has grown to 1.5m wide and only 50cm high. I am so loving it's free flowering and healthy foliage atm that I have ordered another 3 plants to grown as a base to the trees on the verge in the hope that cars will stop driving on it and compacting the tree roots. Will upload photo so you can see it as of today. This plant was grown from a cutting by Marilyn Thomas, a member of our HRiA group in the Illawarra/South Coast/Sth Highlands group. On the negative side. I have seen it ball in heavy rain, but what rose doesn't!
This is not a rose to use as a groundcover unless you mulch heavily underneath it and wear very thick gloves while weeding (which probably applies to most "groundcover" roses). It holds onto its dead, too; I'm told the way to deadhead it without backache is to use a golfclub.
Alba Meillandecor (MEIflopan) and White Meillandecor are not the same rose. Different pedigree, different year of introduction. Alba's parentage is same as that of grandparents to Bonica. (I believe Alba is sister seedling to Bonica's parent, and not the actual parent.) Alba was bred earlier, but not introduced until after "White M.".
