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'Red Captain' rose Description
'True Love (mini-flora, Lim, 2013)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of GardenGlimpses
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
1 favorite vote.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
Origin:
Bred by Peter Ping Lim :林 彬 (United States, before 2013).
Introduced in United States by Altman Plants in 2018 as 'Red Captain'.
Class:
Mini-Flora, Shrub.  
Bloom:
Red, purple shading.  None to mild fragrance.  90 to 120 petals.  Average diameter 2.25".  Medium, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Compact.  Glossy, dark green foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: up to 18" (up to 45cm).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 31,575  on  24 Mar 2020   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 16/350,554  on  30 Nov 2018
Inventors: Lim; Peter (Escondido, CA)
The seed parent is the variety Rosa `KORsailer`, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,147. The pollen parent is the unpatented variety Rosa `P9001R`. The new variety was selected in 2014 by the inventor in a group of seedlings resulting from the 2013 crossing, in a nursery in Vista, Calif.
Notes:
Source: Red Captain