A new rose variety, ‘Venus Berry’ was selected from the progenies of a cross between ‘Boy Friend’ and ‘GSR10315’ by rose breeding team of the Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services(GARES) in 2011. ‘Venus Berry’ was crossed in 2007 and seedlings were produced. After the test of specific characters from 2008 to 2011, it was finally selected and named. ‘Venus Berry’ was developed because of distinctive characters such as growth uniformity and high yielding potential. The petal of flower is so thick and has no scratch. A standard type with large sized flower, it has light pink(Red Purple Group 69C) color flower. ‘Venus Berry’ takes 45 days from pruning to blooming and cut flower productivity was 194.1 stems/m2 in a year. The length of cut flower was long with 65.5 cm. It has 10.2 cm in flower diameter and 43.6 in petal numbers per flower. Vase life of the this cultivar could be as long as 12 days.

• Young Soon Lee(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service) Corresponding Author
• Yun Kyung Jung(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Gun Hwan Park(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Myoung Hee Jeon(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Jae Wook Lim(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Sung Kee Kim(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Mi Ok Park(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)