This has a lot of good pics and info

http://entoplp.okstate.edu/pddl/RRD-Tulsa%20Workshop%20Jen%20Olson.pdf

Can you provide a few more pictures of yours?

If you are going to bend the red cane for a different photo perspective, watch out for all those prickles.

Thank you. That was very helpful.

Uploaded some more pictures to google photo. For some reason, I cannot upload more than 1 picture on this site.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qXBAKSHjVvcUp58F6

From the PDF slide, it looks like the disease; but, picture will show some green leaves. Weird.

That looks like RRD to me, I’m sorry to say. I would dig it up, bag it, throw it in the regular trash as soon as possible. Clean up the area around it, and you can plant another rose in another month or so.

Thank you BenT.

That's too bad. It was a mature 5+ ft tall rose bush.

It looks like one of those branches is old and had developed witches broom. If that's the case it's advanced and there's no hope of saving it. I've read suggestions to spray it with hairspray first to immobilize the mites so you do spread them during disposal, they put a bag over it and dig it out. If you can't dig it easily with the bag on, try just cutting the canes and then come back to dig out the roots. Sorry. That look horrible. What rose was it?

RRV imo. If this is the ONLY cane showing symptoms cut back to the crown. If any other canes emerge later on, even a small twiglet, with symptoms you may need to pull up the whole shrub. RRV seems to show up most frequently in the warm weather of summer when growth on the rose is active. In the spring one must be aware of any herbicides sprayed around the rose that can cause somewhat similar growth abnormalities. HOWEVER, from personal experience one infected cane does not a death sentence make. Below is a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a cane fully engaged with RRV. I cut that cane back to the crown and that same Our Lady is still with me in 2020. Of course it is Our Lady.............Maryl

I strongly agree with Dianela, I’d dig that plant out immediately. Once I tried cutting down an. RRD infected plant that I didn’t care about. Everything was fine at first, but then not only did it show infection, the really prized rose next to got infected too. Lesson learned, and once is enough! Play it safe, dig it out.

There is something so repulsive about RRV pictures...I don't know why....but they're revolting. It almost feels primal. LOL

I also meant to say that the RRV infection pictured in Our Lady occurred in 2008. So she has gone another 12 years after the cane was cut off. This was not the only RRV rose I've done the cut back to with success. About 10% of my RRV roses with ONLY ONE cane involved recovered if that cane was cut down to the crown immediately upon observation. That means that 90% of the time new growth will also sprout with symptoms showing you that the virus has spread throughout the rose and the whole rose needs to be removed. In the cooler months obviously the growth is slowed down so symptoms may take awhile to emerge.......I say this so that people who have roses that are not easily replaced have a glimmer of hope.

I know too well about the decimation RRV can cause. Most are not aware that Tulsa had the 2nd largest rose garden at one time in the United States. When RRV first hit it wiped out 80% of their roses and continued to kill more. Now there are just a hand full from what they used to have. It was a devastating blow to a garden that was installed by the WPA (older folks will know what that organization was). It mowed mine down as well. So if you don't want to mess around with it I understand more then some.......................Maryl

Mary, I do know about the rose gardens. I went to OK two years ago on a road trip anxious to see them only to find they had been decimated or completely removed. One of the gardens still had some Austins and other roses and was being used as a RRV test garden with TA&M, I believe.

I started visiting the gardens in earnest when my newbie rose fever struck in the mid 80's. Boy, you should have seen it then. I spent a couple of afternoons each spring and fall just taking notes. In the late 80's I had my first two climbers (White Dawn) exhibit "funky" growth and went to the Tulsa rose garden and talked to the head gardener. She showed me a climbing Chrysler Imperial in the gardens with the same type of growth. You see RRV has been around for a long time, it just didn't seem to be as wide spread as it got to be later on.....I'm sorry you didn't get to experience the Tulsa rose garden in all its glory. It was grand....................Maryl