Rose Téléthon

Delicate and exquisite beauty! Gentle, elegant, of a flawless classical high-centered shape. The colour is soft cream with darker and delicious apricot-yellow closer to the center. Forms very compact and attractive plant.

FLOWERING

The variety has a good recurrent, repeating flowering habit. Blooms in flushes starting from early summer and continues until the frosts.

Flower bud:

The flower buds are medium-sized, and have an elongated oval shape. When sepals first start to divide, bud color is deep cream with lighter colour closer to the tips and yellow base petals. When the bud is half open the bud color is apricot cream with darker apricot-yellow closer to the base. They are borne in small clusters with from 3 to 9 blooms together, having irregular shape, or singly.

Bloom:

The flowers of ‘Téléthon’ are large, the average open size of the flowers is about 10-12 cm (4 – 4/5 inches). The flowers are very double, the number of petals is about 35 - 40.

When the flower first opens, it has a high-centered flower form, which becomes more open and cupped-shaped as the flower fully opens, the outer petals curl back.

The colour of the flowers on the upper sides upon opening is cream with darker apricot-yellow shades closer to the base. The reverse sides of the petals mainly are of the same colour, only slightly lighter. As the flower ages the colour becomes lighter, light cream with apricot yellow closer to the center of the petals.

The petals drop off cleanly before drying.

Fragrance:

The fragrance of ‘Delchacré’ is strong, with Tea character and citrus notes.

Fragrance:

The fragrance of ‘Delchacré’ is moderate, with Tea character and citrus notes.

PLANT

The rose variety ‘Delchacré’ has a robust and strong growth habit. Forms upright, compact, slightly outwardly plant. The mature and well-established plant has a height of about 80 – 120 cm and the width of about 40 – 60 cm.

Foliage:

There is a normal quantity of foliage on the plants of this variety. There are 5 leaflets normally present on a normal mid stem. The leaves are medium to large sized, have glossy and leathery surface texture, the edges are serrated, type of serration – single and small. The colour of the young foliage is medium green while the mature leaves have dark green colour.

Wood:

The stems are relatively strong, erect and have medium thickness. The young stems have medium yellow green colour, the bark is smooth. The old stems have medium brown green colour, the bark is smooth with some rough patches.

Prickles:

There is a normal quantity of prickles on the main canes and on the laterals from main canes. They are quite large, sharp and hooked downward. Young prickles are of a yellow green colour with brown red shades and the mature prickles have medium brown gray colour.

Small prickles:

Small prickles are not observed on the main canes and on the laterals from the main canes.

Disease resistance:

The variety ‘Téléthon’ / ‘Angie’ / ‘Jean-Pierre Foucault’ has good resistance to black spot and rust. The resistance to mildew and to botrytis is above average. Very light and delicate petals texture makes the flowers vulnerable to severe damage by thrips.

The variety proved to be winter hardy in USDA zones 6 and warmer. In more colder climates requires winter protection.

Named also 'Jean-Pierre Foucault' to honor French media personality Jean-Pierre Foucault.

Grand Parfums

Belfast Certificate of Merit, Belfast Rose Trials, 2006;

Gifu Silver Medal, Gifu Rose Trials, 2007;

Glasgow Certificate of Merit, Glasgow Rose Trials, 2007;

Information about the parantage of this rose is not available or commecrically protected.

USDA 6