"Its smooth foliage, infra-stipular prickles, and autumn color change are indicators of New World ancestry, possibly Rosa virginiana, although a European rose is probably the other parent." --Rev. Doug Seidel in Heritage Roses letter, November 2002.

"... Denise Anderssen in Sweden for having pointed out Banshee's distinguishing charactic: tiny leaflets that appear haphazardly and irregularly in between leaflets of normal size, or that hang onto a large learflet like a little ear...The same random leaflets appear on a few leaves of R. x damascena, and its foliage and Banshee's are so close in every way as to be indistinguishable. (The canes and suckering habit of the two roses are also very similar and Banshee also has the Damask scent.) For us, still, Banshee appears to be closely related to the Damask roses and has no affinity with the Albas..." --Jan Phillips in The Rosebank Letter, #44, 15 July 2002

Link to Paul Barden's website and the article "Banshee: The Great Impersonator" by Leonie Bell, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania courtesy of the 1977 AMERICAN ROSE ANNUAL

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