hybrid tea

English

The hybrid tea Rosa ‘Ingrid Bergman’

Noun

hybrid tea (plural hybrid teas)

1. A cross between a hybrid perpetual and a tea rose.

   Coordinate term: old rose

   • 1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Two Remarkable White Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, page 18:

     Of all white hybrid teas, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is the best known.

   • 1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45:

     During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Northern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.

   • 1974, Roland A. Browne, The Rose-lover’s Guide: A Practical Handbook on Rose Growing, Atheneum Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Many countries still refuse to recognize “grandiflora” as a legitimate name, largely on the ground that it seems to imply that the individual blooms are unusually large, whereas most grandifloras have somewhat smaller blooms than the larger hybrid teas.

   • 2003, “Book III: Roses. Chapter 3: A Rose by Any Other Name.”, in the editors at the National Gardening Association and Bob Beckstrom, Karan Davis Cutler, Kathleen Fisher, Phillip Giroux, Judy Glattstein, Mike MacCaskey, Bill Marken, Charlie Nardozzi, Sally Roth, Marcia Tatroe, Lance Walheim, and Anna Whitman, editors, Gardening All-in-One for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, Collecting Climbing Roses. So many climbers, so little time, page 242:

     ✓ Climbing sports: These climbers — generally named after their original variety, such as ‘Climbing Queen Elizabeth’ from the famous, pink grandiflora — result from unusually vigorous canes that grow from popular hybrid teas, grandifloras, shrubs, and floribundas.

   • 2005, Jem Cook, Anna Marsden, Create your dream garden: Tips and techniques to make your garden bloom, →ISBN, page 96:

     There has been a hug swing away from the sort of roses my grandparents loved, fancy Hybrid Teas and Florinbundas^[sic] with names like 'Tallyho' and 'Gay Gordons'.

References

• “hybrid tea, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• hybrid tea rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia