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"Peace's Perfect White" rose Description
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Photo courtesy of Margaret Furness
Origin:
Discovered by Rob Peace (Australia, before 2000).
Bloom:
Buds can be pink edged. Bloom white, ages to pale pink at edges. Or white in spring; pale to mid pink in autumn. Or Cream, flushed pink on outside. Base of petals yellow, making centre of flower look quite yellow. Quilling as it ages.. Mild, tea fragrance. Average diameter 2.75". Ovoid buds.
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Found by Rob Peace in a Melbourne Cemetery.
Study named "Peace's Perfect White" by John Nieuwesteeg, not because it is a perfect rose, but alluding to the cemetery connection – peace, perfect peace.
Similar to, but smaller foliage than Rookwood's "William Anderson"
Bloom: Only solitary flowers seen by one observer. Pedicel smooth, somewhat flattened, some mildew at base. Leafy bracts at base of pedicels. Rather irregularly arranged petals in cup shape. 'Cup and saucer' shaped bloom with the outer rows of petals flattening out and the central rows more separate and upright. Petal edges roll under.
Bud: Fat, plump, pointed. Shows red between sepals above green petals.
Sepals:Smooth, not glandular
Stamens and carples: Don’t show when open. Green carple clump in centre, some stamens.
Receptacle: Cup-shaped, smooth, swells to globular when older.
Fragrance: Dry tea, quite strong.
Foliage: Mildewy. Ovate. Indented vein pattern when older. Quite small compared to "William Anderson". Serrated edges. Serrations rounded, quite far apart. Prickles under rachis. When not mildewed older leaves look leathery and vein-indented.
Prickles: Red when young, brown when older. On a newish bush, they are quite long and
outward-pointing.
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