Rosa macrophylla

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Read about Rosa macrophylla in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Rosa macrophylla, Lindl. Large, upright shrub: flowering branches with few prickles or unarmed: lfts. 9-11, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, acute, simply serrate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1-2 in. long; stipules glandular-ciliate: fls. 1-3, red, about 2 in. across; pedicels and receptacle glandular-setose or naked; sepals lanceolate, long-caudate, entire: fr. oblong-ovoid, red, 1-1 1/2 in. long. Himalayas. W.R. 50. This species is tender and rarely cult., but several of the allied Chinese species when first intro. were distributed as R. macrophylla or varieties of R. macro- phylla, such as R. Moyesii, R. setipoda, R. Davidii, R. sertata, R. persetosa (see suppl. list for the last three species); to R. persetosa belong R. macrophylla var.acicularis, Vilm., and R. macrophylla f. gracilis, Vilm., while f. gracilis, Focke, belongs partly to R. sertata and partly to R. Moyesii.


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