Rosa alba

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Rosa alba in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Rosa alba, Linn. Upright shrub, becoming 6 ft. high: sts. with scattered hooked prickles and sometimes with bristles: lfts. usually 5, broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, serrate, pubescent beneath, 1-2 in. long: upper stipules dilated: fls. more or less double, usually several, white, fragrant; pedicels glandular-hispid; receptacle usually smooth: fr. ovate, scarlet. June. Origin unknown, probably hybrid of R. gallica and R. dumetorum. Var. rubicunda, Roessig (R. incarnata, Mill. R. alba yar. incarnata, Pers.). Fls. double, white tinged with pink. W.R. 137. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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