| 2003 AARS Winner:
 Hot Cocoa™
Gardeners will be debating the color of Hot Cocoa, a very novel brownish-orange Floribunda washed with smoke on the top and a deep rusty orange on the underside. How about “smoky chocolate orange?”
In any case, people of all ages are attracted to Hot Cocoa, whose pointed buds of deep rust unfurl to reveal the color that some call “cinnamon brown” and which often takes on a purply cast.
Large four-inch flowers hold their color and tolerate heat very well. Tom Carruth hybridized this vigorous, disease-resistant rose by crossing Playboy and Altissimo with Livin’ Easy. Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower is the introducer.
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