Marie Van Houtte looks very, very similar in bloom, foliage, and habit. If anyone who has it could chime in, I can't tell from hmf pics if it is entirely smooth, like this is.

Very pretty whatever it is. Maybe if you post this or a link to this thread over on the Antique Rose Forum someone might be able to help you better. I only have a handful of teas, and none of mine are what you have there. Good luck!

Does the plant live in Mexico? And do you have a general idea of how old the plant might be?

It's a lovely rose, and I agree that it looks like a Tea, but I wouldn't rule out the possiblity of an early Hybrid Tea.

Thanks for sharing the photos, and good luck with getting an ID.

Virginia

I'm of no help but I am interested to see what it is as well. The color is so delicate and refined. I love tea roses and the size of the bloom is very appealing. I'm in SoCal, so if it grows by you, it will grow by me. Good luck in IDing it. I'll be keeping an eye out to see what it turns out to be. Lisa

At first sight I thought of Marie van Houtte, but that is a very thorny rose, with numerous prickles that can carry to the bracts at the base of the flower stems, according to the authors of 'Tea Roses Old Roses For Warm Gardens'. I have it growing and the scratches to prove it! I would suggest looking at Mrs Dudley Cross as a possible ID.

I tried to get a decent photo of my bush but it is very overcast today so only managed this. Even the leaf stems have small hooked prickles (and the definition is poor because this is an iPad camera shot).

I'm wondering if it's just me, but I do see some similarities- especially the foliage- to 'Mrs Dudley Cross'. This photo looks rather like your first photo, but I think it's a mistake to rely too much on bloom color with roses, and especially with Teas, since they can be so variable.

Have a look at the wide variations of bloom color and shape, though, in the other photos to see if this strikes you as a good possibility.

I understand that it isn't your plant, but if you could manage to get a photo of the whole shrub without too much 'background' in the photo that might identify the property, that might be helpful.

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=21.108546

I am just now looking at Melodye's post above (I scanned it before, but not carefully enough), and seeing that she also has 'MDC' in mind, so now I feel a bit more confident in my suggestion.

Good luck,

Virginia

PS Here is an old GW thread about 'Mrs DC' with good info and beautiful photos:

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1704977/is-mrs-dudley-cross-a-must-have

I noticed that she is considered thornless, and not very fragrant... kinda like "your" rose!

Melodye, thank you for the picture, it's alright, I can appreciate the hooks in the rachis, so that is discarded.

And Virginia, in that picture the foliage is nearly identical! Though I haven't seen it with that much BS, but it might be my climate. Very rarely do I see BS in one or two leaves of my plants, isolated, as though the weather won't allow it to spread. Eventually it goes away without making further damage.

I checked on the other pictures and there's a good chance it is Mrs DC.

The comments on hmf are also very, very applicable to what I have, especially this one:

As for the thread here, it makes sense that people from Dallas and San Antonio say it performs well for them, when it too does great here, we're only 5 hours apart.

They also mention it being entirely, absolutely thornless, even in the rachis.

Interestingly in that thread someone mentions Mrs Dudley being a sport of Marie Van Houtte, whilst in hmf it's parentage is not known...

The only thing that didn't quite match was the petal count on hmf (17-25). My count was 50+, but I counted petalloids too. When you count petals are you supposed to count those too? Or just the bigger, outer, fully formed ones?

I think I can safely settle it down as Mrs Dudley Cross. I'll keep an eye out for anything, but I'm pretty convinced this is it.

Thank you both!

Looks like my Mrs. DC

Thanks all for your help, just to close the thread off, Virginia, you asked for some entire bush pics, here they are, I tried to make them as discrete as possible, if you see anything troublesome that I might have missed, tell me to take it down right away:

It was pruned rather heavily about two months ago and it looks a bit lop-sided, but it will fill out. It usually has more blooms, too. I was mistaken about the trunk being a single, huge one, I guess every time I saw it I was much too distracted with the top... but the ensemble whole does make a 50 cm radius more or less...

Close-up of some flowers:

Some BS:

I found a single prickle! Prickl-a-boo!

And this is what the flower I cut in tight bud opened to in the vase:

Once again, thank you lots!