The photos on helpmefind don't match the description well, and the rose at Petticoat Lane is even paler. There were so many sports of Ophelia and its sport Mme Butterfly I guess it doesn't matter too much if another one is lost.
This is the second rose that you have mentioned that is paler at Petticoat Lane (the other was [privately] “Blackwood Inn West”). Could it be the soil and/or conditions? I think it matters a great deal. Does anybody know of anyone growing the ‘Ophelia’ tribe, or what is left of them, in the one bed, anywhere around the world?
I wonder if the source plant for the roses by this name in the US had reverted, or sported to something else. Ophelia had 22 non-climbing sports, and Mme Butterfly had a further 6. They can't all have been distinct. Show judges couldn't be sure of telling Ophelia and Mme Butterfly apart.
From Sue Zwar: The soil is a rich deep brown clay loam verging on terra rossa but not quite. (The terra rossa soil is what makes wines from the Coonawarra district so good.)
