A New Bicolored Rose Cultivar, “Red Sun”

A New bicolor standard rose (Rose hybrida Hort.) cultivars were developed by line selection in 1999 at the Flower Breeding Research Institute, Gyeongnam ARES. Characteristics were investigated three times from ’01 to ’04. “Red Sun” was crossed between “Red Sandra” and “Sacha” and it has a red-group color (RHS No. 46A), few thorns and standard large flower with a good harmony between ray floret and flower center. The vase life of cut flower was 11.7 days. It was registered as commercial cultivars in 2005. These new cultivars could be planted in almost greenhouse production region of Korea and will be released to general farmers in 2006.