A new standard rose cultivar ‘Green Star’ was bred from the cross between pink color standard cultivar ‘Pastel move’ and red color standard cultivar ‘Vital’ at the National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science. The cross was made in 2008 and ‘Green Star’ was finally selected in 2013 after investigating characteristics for three years from 2011 to 2013. ‘Green Star’, a light yellow standard cultivar grows vigorously and has good and big shape. The major characteristics of this cultivar are 122.0 stems/㎡/year in yield, 77.0±8.0 cm in length of cut flower, 12.1±0.4 cm in flower diameter, 37.7±4.2 in petal number, and 11.0±1.4 days in vase life. This cultivar can be propagated by both cutting and grafting. The consumer’s preference of this cultivar is relatively higher than that of control cultivar, ‘Moonlight’.

• Hye-Jin Lee(Floriculture Research Div., National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science RDA) Corresponding Author
• Won-Hee Kim(Floriculture Research Div., National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science RDA)
• Su-Young Lee(Floriculture Research Div., National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science RDA)
• O-Hyeon Kwon(Floriculture Research Div., National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science RDA)
• Kyeong-Seong Cheon(Floriculture Research Div., National Institute of Horticulture & Herbal Science RDA)