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<i>Rosa</i> 'Mermaid'
<i>Rosa</i> 'Mermaid'

Rosa 'Mermaid'

rose Mermaid (climbing)

Sweetly scented, single, cup-shaped, primrose-yellow flowers on stiff, red-brown stems from July to September and shiny, dark green...

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