Mountain Rose

Description

The mountain rose , or rose huckle ( Rosa montana ), is a wild rose species belonging to the section of the Caninæ , native to Europe (notably France, Switzerland and Central Europe, Northern Spain, Greece) and ' North Africa ( Algeria ). Synonym : Rosa communis Rouy subsp. montana (Chaix) Rouy . It should not be confused with the floribunda rose ' Montana ', created by the house Tantau in 1974. It is a shrub forming a dense bush, deciduous, about one to two meters high, whose stems are equipped with many hook spines . The sheets imparipinnately, 5 to 9 cm long, have 5 to 7 oval or rounded edge leaflets to close, glabrous. The flowers , 2 to 3 cm in diameter, have five pale pink petals, and many yellow stamens; they are sometimes grouped in corymbs of 2 to 7 flowers, but most often solitary, and appear from the end of spring to the middle of summer. The fruits are rose hips globular to oblong, red when ripe.