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Smells like apples..

kayssims
18 years ago

I have a mystery rose! My (rented) house is a cottage/small house, roughly 90 to 110 years old. The largest rose bush I've ever seen in my life grows along half the side, and would more than likely've covered the entire /and/ the roof by now if it wasn't for the merciless (butchering) cutting of the landlord.

It has thorns, roughly 30 petals per flower, smells like apples, has medium sized (I think) medium green glossy leaves. From top to bottom/side to side the flowers are roughly an inch wider than your average orange. They're colored a lovely, /very/ pale shade of white-pink that's somewhat uneven across the petal.

The apple scent is strong if you put your face in the flower, but otherwise not noticable. The flowers grow in clusters between three to sixteen(!) and are dark-pink in the bud. The branches are red-green, with red thorns that are small to medium and smooth.

It seems to be a climber, but it's hard to tell due to the harsh cut-down.

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