I have Reine des Violettes. It looks just like The Prince -- dark purple with quartered blooms of 50 or 60 petals. Comte de Chambord also has quartered blooms with about 50 petals. This NOID rose of mine has no more than 10 or 12 petals. The colors are modern too. It's either a floribunda or a shrub rose.
Sue, that's a good guess. Lovestruck is one of my favorite roses. I have two of them, in fact. I did think it was Lovestruck on one of its earlier flushes, but now it's settled into a darker shade of pink, more like a fuchsia, and it doesn't have as many petals as Lovestruck.
Picante is carried by Certified Roses, so I looked through their 2010 catalog and found a possible ID, but it would be a miracle. Certified also carried Little Gigi that year.
I've ordered Little Gigi three times. Hortico sent me a solid yellow rose. When I informed them that they had sent me the wrong rose, they sent me a replacement -- a white climber, which appears to be Iceberg. I then ordered Little Gigi from Cliff, but I told him my Hortico story and he said his is solid yellow from Hortico also, so I passed. I've wanted this rose for a long time, but I never ran across it at Home Depot under its real name. I suspect this rose they labeled Picante is a genuine Little Gigi.
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