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Roses
Hot Cocoa
- Genus: Rosa
- Class: Floribunda
- Name: WEKpaltlez
- Trade name: Hot Cocoa
- Breeder: Thomas F. Carruth, USA
- Introduced: 2003 by Weeks Roses, USA
- Award: AARS 2003
- Parentage:
- Seed: (Playboy x Altissimo)
- Pollen: Livin'Easy (Floribunda)
- Flower Double
- Size: 2.6 to 4" (6.7 to 10.2 cm)
- Colours: Smoky chocolate orange blend overlaid with a lavender wash
- Flower shape: High centered to slightly cupped
- Petal count: 17 to 27
- Petaloids: 2 to 14
- Flowers per stem: 2 to 5
- Blooming habit: Recurrent (Good repeat)
- Fragrance: Moderate tea
- Leaves: Compound and pinnate
- Colour: Medium green
- Texture: Moderately leathery to crisp, very glossy
- Rachis: Moderately rough and some small prickles
- Prickles: Large
- Form: Hooked slightly downward
- Hips: Globular to urn-shaped
- Habit: Upright, bushy
- Height: 35" (90 cm)
- Exposure: Minimum 6 hours daily
- Bloom time:: Early summer to fall
- Disease resistance: Above average
- Hardiness: 6
- Location: Artist garden, Zone 4b
- Comments: Garden Journal
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