Belle Florentine

Berlèse, 1845, Monographie, ed.3, p.245, No.487: Leaves, 9-10 cm long, 6-­7 cm wide, long-oval, acuminate, deeply serrate, dark green; buds slim, long and very pointed in the winter, becoming oval, obtuse with whitish scales. Flower, 9-10 cm across, full rose form double, of a dark orange-red carmine; petals in 6 rows, long oval, notched, reflexed, chan­nelled, distantly imbricated; those at the centre, the same size, very long, of deep red. Origi­nated by Guicciardini, Florence, Italy.