Hybrid tea rose plant named ‘KORmaccap’

A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel pastel pink flowers, and attractive foliage with excellent disease resistance. It exhibits upright to bushy growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Latin name of genus and species: The botanical classification of the new rose plant isRosa hybrida.

Variety denomination: The denomination of the new variety is ‘KORmaccap’.

CROSS REFERENCES AND FEDERAL R&D STATEMENT

There are no cross referenced or related applications. This variety was developed without the aid of any research grant.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The new variety of rose plant of the present invention originated from a controlled crossing in a breeding program of two distinct parents during the summer of 1998. The crossing was between an ‘un-named seedling’, the seed parent, and another ‘un-named seedling’, the pollen parent by the same inventor.

The resulting seeds were planted during the following winter. The resulting seedlings were evaluated and exhibited distinctive physical and biological characteristics. The new rose plant was selected as a single plant from the seedling beds due to its superior characteristics and asexually propagated for further evaluation. This new and distinctive rose variety is named ‘KORmaccap’.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The new rose plant may be distinguished from its seed parent, an ‘un-named seedling’, by the following combination of characteristics:1. ‘KORmaccap’ has a pastel pink flower, whereas the ‘un-named seedling’ has a dark pink flower.2. ‘KORmaccap’ has a cluster flower formation, whereas the ‘un-named seedling’ has mostly a sole flower formation.

The new rose plant may be distinguished from its pollen parent, an ‘un-named seedling’, by the following combination of characteristics:1. ‘KORmaccap’ has a strong fragrance, whereas the ‘un-named seedling’ has no fragrance.2. ‘KORmaccap’ has a very double petal count, whereas the ‘un-named seedling’ has a semi-double petal count.

The objective of the hybridization was to create a new and distinct rose plant with unique qualities, such as:1. Uniform growth and flowering;2. Abundant attractive, recurrent flowers;3. Attractive and abundant foliage; and4. Resistance to diseases encountered in landscapes and gardens.

This combination of qualities is not present in prior rose cultivars known to the inventor. These objectives have been substantially achieved and in that distinguish ‘KORmaccap’ from all other varieties of which I am aware.

As part of a rose development program, Tim-Hermann Kordes germinated seeds from the aforementioned hybridization and conducted evaluations and observations on the resulting seedlings in a controlled environment in Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, Germany. The resulting seedlings exhibited distinctive physical and biological characteristics. The new rose plant ‘KORmaccap’ was selected in May 1999 from the seedling beds to be asexually propagated for further evaluation. The first asexual propagation of ‘KORmaccap’ was done by budding in July 1999 at the inventor's nursery in Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, Germany.

These initial and other subsequent propagations conducted in controlled environments demonstrate that ‘KORmaccap’ reproduces true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

The following is a description of ‘KORmaccap’, as observed growing in June 2013 in a nursery in Jackson County, Oreg. on plants of 2 years of age. Color references are made using The Royal Horticultural Society (London, England) Colour Chart, 2001 except where common terms of color are used.

For a comparison, several physical characteristics of the rose variety ‘KORjuknei’, a rose variety from the same inventor described and illustrated in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,499 and issued on Feb. 21, 2102 are compared to ‘KORmaccap’ in Chart 1.

FLOWER AND FLOWER BUD

THE PLANT