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Pink, thorny rambler, roadside. ID please?

bruglover
12 years ago

I'd appreciate a best guess on this one. Didn't have my camera with me, so no pic, sorry.

Roadside in SW Mississippi, and apparently not sending out new shoots at this time. I saw no soft-ish young growth, like my climbing roses send out.

Clusters of smallish, 1-1/2 inch, very double pink flowers - bubble gum pink, 30+ petals. No scent at all. Visually the flowers very much resembled my Tausendschon, a bit darker pink, but this rose had plenty of thorns and the foliage not quite so light spring-green as the Tau. The stems were green, not reddish. It didn't look like it was putting out new growth at this time.

Rambler/climber not more than 10 ft long. Re-rooted where it touched the ground, so I've got one, whatever it is. It was the only such rose I saw in the area, I looked at the yards of nearby rural homes, so it apparently doesn't spread easily through hips/seeds. It was also in a spot where it had probably not been deliberately planted, not an old homesite. The main plant was over the edge of a steep, 15 foot deep ditch.

Many thanks in advance.

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