A Standard Rose Cultivar, ‘Summer Red’ with Big Head Size and Red Colored Petals for Cut Flowers

A rose cultivar, 'Summer Red' was developed at Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services (GARES) in 2012.A cross was made between 'Cardinal' and 'Fire Fox' in 2007 and seedlings were produced in 2008.After the test of specific characters from 2010 to 2012, it was finally selected and named.A standard flower type with large sized flower, it has red color (RHS Color Chart Red Group 44B).The leaf was resistant to powdery mildew.It takes 51 days to flowering and cut flower productivity was 168.4 stems/m 2 in a year.The length of cut flower was long with 82.4 cm and the fresh weight of cut flower was 44.3 g.It has 12.3 cm in flower diameter, 5.5 cm in flower height, 46.7 in petal numbers per flowers and 11 days in vase life.When it grows under the below 15℃ and 1,000 lux conditions the petals edge color became dark red in winter season.This new rose cultivar, 'Summer Red' was granted on Korea Seed & Variety Service with No. 4867 in 2014.