Robin Hood rose

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Plant name
Folk name Robin Hood rose
Binomial name Rosa moschata
First recorded 1927
Used where England, and perhaps widespread in the Western World
Robin Hood rose / Ptoto by Onewish1, Allison, of National Gardening Association website. Used by permission.
Rosa 'Robin Hood' in the Rosarium Baden, Doblhoffpark, Baden bei Wien / Photo: Anna Reg; Collective Commons BY-SA 3.0 at license.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-06-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02. Photo by 'Onewish1' (Allison), user of the National Gardening Association website.

The Robin Hood rose is a variety of musk rose introduced in 1927 by the well-known English rosarian or rose breeder Joseph Pemberton (1852–1926).[1] This variety of musk rose forms a large spreading shrub bearing dense clusters of very small (c. 1.5 cm ⌀) cherry red blooms. It reaches a height of c. 120 cm and a width of c. 150 cm. Its foliage is dark green and small, while its blooms are bright cherry red, darkening with age.

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