Jaquet de Mantoue

Hybrid Gallica
Hybridized by Jean-Pierre Vibert 1999

This vigorous and floriferous rose has flat, double, crimson-violet flowers with a white reverse. Foliage is large, tough and green with 3 to 5 leaflets. The wood is a little thorny. The shrub will sucker a little.

Jaquet de Mantoue, a French composer (1483-1559), published several collections of masses, motets, hymns and magnificat.