Breeding of Light Pink Rose ‘Magic Pink’ with High Productivity and Good Shape

Abstract

A new standard rose cultivar Magic Pink was bred from thecross between light yellow standard cultivar Medeo 　and pink standard cultivar Veronica at the National Horticulture Research Institute. The cross was made in 2001 and MagicPink was finally selected in 2006 after investigating charactstandard cultivar grows vigorously and has fashionable flower color. The major characteristics of this cultivar are 184.8stems/m2/year in yield, 63.0cm in length of cut flower, 7.2 cm in flower diameter, 28.5 in petal number, and 10.4 days in vaselife. This cultivar can be propagated by both cutting and grafting.than that of control cultivar, Noblesse.