Millennium Red
Classification:
2 W-R[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 2003
Seed Parent: 
Evans W2-5 seedling [
Quasar 2 W-PPR 
Murray Evans, United States
Year Registered: 1977
Cordial x Precedent
Quasar
x ( seedling x
Everpink 2 W-P 
Murray Evans, United States
Year Registered: 1970
Wild Rose x Interim
Everpink
) ]
Pollen Parent: 
Ruby Red 2 W-R 
Dr. John R. Reed, United States
Year Registered: 1995
Duncan 2W-P seedling x Space Ship
Ruby Red
Seedling Number:
91/6/1
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 94 mm wide, facing up; petal segments are broadly ovate, shouldered at base, mucronate, brilliant white, spreading, plane or with margins slightly incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping; inner segments narrower; cup is funnel-shaped, ribbed, brilliant red, mouth expanded and frilled, with rim dentate. Sunproof. Sweetly scented.

Origin of Name

Part of Dr. Reed’s ”Millennium Series”.