Plant
Rose
Rosa (genus)
Also known as: Rosa
A genus of woody perennial flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) — roughly 300 species and tens of thousands of cultivars. Among the oldest cultivated ornamental plants; rose imagery and rose-water tradition go back at least 5,000 years through Persian, Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Islamic horticulture. Beyond ornamental value, roses are commercially significant for rose oil (essential oil for perfumery), rose water, rose hips (vitamin-C-rich fruit), and the floricultural cut-flower trade.
Scientific
Rosa contains ~300 species distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Cultivated garden roses are mostly complex hybrids descending from a handful of species (Rosa gallica, Rosa damascena, Rosa chinensis, Rosa moschata, and others). The 19th-century introduction of the China rose (R. chinensis) into European breeding programs gave us the modern hybrid teas — repeat-blooming cultivars that flower throughout the season.
Cultural
The rose is woven through more cultural traditions than almost any other plant. Persian poetry’s rose-and-nightingale image; Sufi metaphysics’ rose-of-divine-love symbol; Roman sub rosa secrecy; medieval Mariological imagery; English heraldry’s red and white roses; Chinese rose imagery in poetry and painting; Mughal garden architecture’s rose-water fountains. The Bulgarian Valley of Roses and the Persian rose-oil industry both produce the rose oil (attar) that underlies much of the global perfume industry.
Modern uses
Cut-flower roses are one of the largest international floricultural trades — concentrated in Kenya, Ecuador, Colombia, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands. Rose hips (the fruits that form after flowering) are nutritionally significant — extremely high in vitamin C, and harvested commercially in Eastern Europe and Chile for tea and supplement production.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[peach]] · [[plum]] · [[apricot]] · [[walnut]] · [[tea]] · [[spinach]]
- Member of: [[plants]] · [[persian-culinary-iconography]]
Sources
- Wikipedia — Rose
- International Rose Test Garden ([[portland-or|Portland]])
A plant entry in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
What links here, and how
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Cultural
shares approach with
- Dahlia auto-linked from body mention
- Pomegranate Persian iconographic kin — the rose and the pomegranate are the two most-painted plants of Persian miniature art; both fertility-and-paradise symbols.
General
shares approach with
- Carrot auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
- Lychee auto-linked via shared tag: china
- Pear auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
- Saffron auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
- Spinach auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
- Strawberry auto-linked via shared tag: rosaceae
- Violet auto-linked via shared tag: perfumery
- Walnut auto-linked via shared tag: domesticated
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