There are several Tea rose groups. Pink Tea roses resulted from the cross of the Bourbon Rose with 'Hume's Blush China' (which probably has R. gigantea as an ancestor, giving the crosses a Tea scent). Further breeding with 'Park's Yellow' has produced Tea Noisettes and a range of yellow and apricot roses. They are generally climbers or small bushes with repeat flowering. The shoots of these roses have a few red prickles and often purplish leaves. They do well in the warm climates of the Mediterranean, California and Australia. Tea roses, when crossed with Hybrid Perpetuals, produced the Hybrid Teas.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Bush or climbing shrub. Flowers large, double, often quartered, buff, amber and apricot, deeper pink shades in the centre. The first Tea rose, raised 1833 and int. 1835 and named after its English nurseryman and originator. Parentage unknown.
Shrub or climber. Flowers flat, double, purple-pink with a blush centre.a seedling selection of 'Madame Lombard' raised by Narbonnand, France.
Flowers large, double, long-flowering, creamy white with a pink centre, strongly scented. 'Smith's Yellow'_'Park's Yellow China'. Raised by Foster, 1838.
Large shrub. Flowers double, cupped, pale to dark pink, fragrant. Raised Bernède, France, in 1857.
Flowers large, double, cupped, dark velvet red. Raised Dubreuil, France, 1894.
A climbing Tea. Flowers double, large, buff-apricot to pink, strongly fragrant. Raised by Jacotot, France, 1853.
Flowers apricot yellow. A hybrid whose recorded but unlikely parents are 'Papa Gontier' _ 'Madame Hoste', raised by Lowe and Shawyer, uk, in 1910.
Flowers large and creamy white, suffused with darker shades. Raised by Guillot père, France, 1846.
Flowers large, double, flesh pink to salmon, fragrant. 'Marie van Houtte' _ 'Madame Lombard'. Raised by Cochet, France,1893.
Spreading shrub. Flowers cream suffused with pink and darker at the base, fragrant. A hybrid, 'Madame de Taras' _ 'Madame Falcot', raised by Ducher, France, 1871.
Plant without prickles. Flowers double, white to greenish white, fragrant. Raised by a. Dickson, n Ireland, 1908.
Flowers double, rosy pink to salmon and carmine, fragrant. Raised by Bernaix, France, 1891.
Dense shrub. Flowers semi-double, petals pink, carmine below. Raised Nabonnand, France, 1883.
Flowers double, dark red with cream, sometimes yellow, fragrant. Raised by John Williams of Qld. Another rose, bred by Pemberton in 1924, is also known under this name.
Dense shrub. Flowers erratic, double, golden, fragrant. Raised p. Guillot, France, 1881.
