Hybrid Tea

• Red and dark red: Black Velvet, Crimson Glory, Happiness
• Orange: Hawaii, Super, Star, Duke of Windsor
• Yellow: Summer Sunshine, Golden Giant, Kiss of Fire, Double Delight
• Pink: Eiffel Tower, First Love, First Prize
• White: Virgo, White Christmas
• Bicolours: Suspense (red and yellow), Perfecta (pink and white)
• Lavender: Blue, Africa Star, Paradise
• Novel Colour: Careless Love
• Fragrant Roses: Fragrant Cloud, Sugandha

Floribunda

These have been produced by crossing Hybrid Tea and dwarf polyantha.

• Red: Rob Roy, Jantar Mantar
• Orange: Scarlet, Independence, Shola
• Yellow: All Gold, Fugitive, Gold Bunny
• Pink: Queen Elizabeth, Mercedes
• White: Iceberg, Himagini
• Lavender: Angel Face, Lavender Princess
• Bicolour: Red Gold, Fantasia
• Multi Colour: Banjaran, Madhura

Polyantha

Ideal, Swati, Echo, Madam Gladstone

Miniature

These are also called as Baby roses. They are compact but dwarf plants. These were introduced from China as Pigmy rose (R.Chininsis variety minima). These are mostly ideally suited for edging, pots, rockeries or window gardens.

• Red: Red Flush, Little red
• Pink: Rosemarin
• Orange: Sum Blaze, Mary Marshal
• Yellow: Yellow Doll, Summer Butter
• White: Cindrella
• Lavender: Jewel
• Multi Colour: Puppy Love, Party Girl
• Bicolour: Sassy Lassy

Climbing and rambling

These produce long arching canes and need some support to keep them upright. Show Girl, Prosperity, Golden Showers, Delhi Pink Pearl, Casino.

Shrub Roses

Cocktail, Joseph’s Coat.

Damask rose (Bulgaria, Turkey, India)

Tuscany, Celsiana, HebsHip

Cabbage rose

Robert de Diable, Tour de Malakoff

Alba rose

Queen of Denmark

Musk rose (Origin in Russia)

Vanity, Prosperity, Felicia, Pax Penelope

Popular Varieties grown for Essential oil Production

• Noorjahan is the most popular variety having high geraniol content, released by CIMAP.
• IHBT –Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur– 2 varieties
  1. Jwala – suited for subtropical Northern plains
  2. Himroz – suited for mild to cold temperate regions, cold tolerant (winter hardy)