AKA "Rosa chinensis mutabilis","Tipo Ideale"
Makes a large spreading shrub, can be used as
a flowering hedge> Famous for the changing colours
of the flowers which open a safron colour and
mature to a raspberry pink before fading to a
paler pinky-white. The shrub often has all these
colours on display at the same time.
Probably from China,
introduced to Italy pre-1894