Rosa 'American Beauty'
Rosa 'American Beauty' | ||
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Marketing names 'Mme Ferdinand Jamin' | | |
Origin | Henri Lédéchaux (France, 1875)[1] |
Rosa 'American Beauty' is a deep pink to crimson
Description
The hybrid perpetual has cup-shaped flowers with a brilliant crimson colour and up to 50 petals, situated on long stiff stems. The buds are thick and globular and open to strongly scented, hybrid tea-like flowers with a diameter of 11 cm.[2] They appear in flushes over a long period, but according to the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses, only sparingly.[2]
The height of the upright, vigorous shrub ranges between 90 and 200 centimetres (3.0 and 6.6 ft) at an average width of 90 to 125 centimetres (2.95 to 4.10 ft).
History
In 1875, it was brought to the
Symbol
The flower is commemorated in the Joseph Lamb ragtime composition "American Beauty Rag".
In a pastiche Ziegfeld-style number, "The Flower Garden Of My Heart" in the 1940 Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey, one of the six 'flower' girls appears as the American Beauty Rose.
The song "American Beauty Rose" was written in 1950 and popularized by Frank Sinatra.
In the musical "Funny Girl", protagonist Fanny Brice humorously refers to herself as an "American beauty rose / with an American beauty nose / and ten American beauty toes" in the song "I'm the Greatest Star."
In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged Italian hurls an American Beauty rose at Major de Coverly, wounding him in the eye.
The flower is a recurring motif in the Oscar-winning 1999 film American Beauty.
It was also featured on the cover of the Grateful Dead album American Beauty.
'American Beauty' is the official flower of the
References
- ^ a b c "American Beauty". HelpMeFind.com Roses. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-8310-1734-8.
- ^ ISBN 3-8320-8736-2.
- ISBN 978-3-8338-1726-7.