Whitewoolly Rose

(Rosa tomentosa)

galery

Description

It is a shrub that reaches a size of 1-3 m in height.-It has arched stems, green or reddish, thin, somewhat curved, rarely straight.-Leaves with a resin odor, and 5-7 ovate-elliptic ovate-lanceolate leaflets, acute, rounded at the base, irregularly and doubly serrated, somewhat tomentose by the bundle, and very tomentose by the underside.The flowers appear in corimbiform, bracteate inflorescences.-Corolla 35-40 mm in diameter;-Petals from a strong pink to whitish pink.-Globulous globular, ovoid or urceolate, dark red, with glands spiked all over or only at the base, sometimes with needles or even smooth.-It has a number of-chromosomes-2n = 35.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Rosa
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