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Rosa 'Harison's Yellow', also known as R. × harisonii, the Oregon Trail Rose or the Yellow Rose of Texas, is a rose cultivar which originated as a chance hybrid in the early 19th century. It probably is a seedling of Rosa foetida and Rosa pimpinellifolia. [2][3] The cultivar first bloomed at the suburban villa of George Folliott Harison ...
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white inner petals, representing the House of York, and five red outer petals to represent the ...
In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged Italian hurls an American Beauty rose at Major de Coverly, wounding him in the eye. The flower is a recurring motif in the Oscar-winning 1999 film American Beauty. It was also featured on the cover of the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. 'American Beauty' is the official flower of the District of ...
Garden roses. The hybrid tea rose, ' Peace ' [1] Garden roses are predominantly hybrid roses that are grown as ornamental plants in private or public gardens. They are one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants, especially in temperate climates. An enormous number of garden cultivars has been produced, especially ...
Rosa banksiae Rosa persica. There are currently four subgenera in Rosa, although there has been some disputes over the years. [3] The four subgenera are: Hulthemia (formerly Simplicifoliae, meaning "with single leaves") containing one or two species from Southwest Asia, R. persica and R. berberifolia (syn. R. persica var. berberifolia) which are the only species without compound leaves or ...
Rosa arkansana, the prairie rose[1] or wild prairie rose, is a species of rose native to a large area of central North America, between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan south to New Mexico, Texas and Indiana. There are two varieties: The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado.
The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Peace', synonym Mme A. Meilland, is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. The cultivar has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It is hardy and vigorous and relatively ...
"Moss" on the bud of a centifolia moss rose a blooming flower of Rosa centifolia foliacea at D.I Yogyakarta. Rosa × centifolia (lit. hundred leaved rose; syn. R. gallica var. centifolia (L.) Regel), the Provence rose, cabbage rose or Rose de Mai, is a hybrid rose developed by Dutch breeders in the period between the 17th century and the 19th century, possibly earlier.