| Description | A vigorous Rugosa Rose with red flowers and handsome foliage. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Rose |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | medium red, semi-double, repeat blooms (remontant), fragrant |
| Fruit | tomato shaped hip |
| Leaves | glossy green, leathery, wrinkled |
| Stems | covered with prickles |
| Roots | fiborus |
| Dimensions | 2-3 feet tall, 4 feet spread, can grow like a ground cover rose |
| Maintenance | very disease resistant, stems covered with wicked prickles so wear puncture proof gloves and long shirts when pruning, can be and probably should be cut back hard each to every other year |
| Cultivar Origin | Morden Hybrid, Sveida, Canada in 1982 |
| Misc Facts | Named after a French Jesuit Explorer Charles Albanel one of the first Europeans to travel overland to Hudson Bay. |
| Notes & Reference | #107-American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses (Charles and Brigid Quest-Ritson), #111-Botanica’s Roses, #112-Taylor’s Guide to Roses (Nancy Ondra) |
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