Rosa chinensis

The rose tree of China ( Rosa chinensis ) is a species of Rosier classified in the section of the chinenses originating in the center of the China (Guizhou, Hubei and Sichuan).

Description

It is a shrub which can reach 1 to 2 meters in height, pushing in the hedges or formant of the thickets.

The Feuille S imparipennées generally have three to five leaflets, each leaflet, lancéolée-acuminate, being 3 to 6 cm length on 1 to 3 broad.

At the wild forms (sometimes classified like Rosa chinensis VAr. spontanea ), the Fleur S, from 5 to 6 cm in diameter, have five petals of bright color, pink with red. They solitary or are grouped in low number (3). The fruits have 1 to 2 cm in diameter.

Use

This species is very largely cultivated in China like decorative Plante; many a Cultivar S was selected for their flowers of varied colors, with the many petals (semi-double, double or full flowers).

The species also played a big role in the creation of many pinks of modern gardens, whose hybrid pinks of the and is at the origin of the varieties known as “going up”, i.e. with continuous flowering, or refleurissant in summer.

The flowers and the fruits are employed in the Chinese traditional Médecine for the treatment of the irregular or painful rules, like against the Goiter.

Changes of Rosa chinensis

Rosa chinensis “Spontanea” or “Henry' S Crimson Clouded”, present in China and naturalized in India is a bush with red simple flowers in June. It is one of the parents of Rosa odorata , therefore of all the hybrid pinks of the, and consequently of the majority of the modern pinks.
Rosa chinensis Semperflorens , rose tree of red Bengal, “Old Crimson Clouded” with the red, odorous, half-double flowers which flower from June to October. It is a change of Rosa chinensis “Spontanea” cultivated in the Chinese gardens.
Rosa chinensis “Minimum” and Rosa chinensis “Pumilla” or “Pompom of Bengal”, dwarf roses, which are or gave by change “Rouletii”,
Rosa chinensis “Viridiflora”, change with green flowers and going up flowering,
Rosa chinensis “Mutabilis”, change or hybrid of Rosa odorata .

Hybrids of Rosa chinensis

Hybrid direct still cultivated:

“Rouletii” and “Pompom of Paris” of the dwarf roses with small double grouped flowers pale pink
“Old Blush” or “Bengal pink” ( Rosa chinensis “Spontanea” X Rosa gigantea ) very old Chinese selection of a rose tree with semi-double, odorous pink flowers which flowers

very a long time

“Glory of the rosomanes”, “Hermosa”, “Fallemberg” or the “Beautiful Marseillaise” to quote some of those which are still cultivated,
Rosa odorata ( Rosa chinensis X Rosa gigantea ) which is sometimes classified with the chinensis what is an error. They are Chinese cultivated hybrids, and not of the spontaneous forms.

Rosa indica “Odorata” or 'Rosa indica flagrens 'or “Hume' S Blush Tea-scentes Clouded” the first arrived to Europe, with semi-double flowers pink clear, the relative of the pinks the, drawn by Redouté because bought in spite of the blockade by Joséphine de Beauharnais for its Roseraie,
“Park' S Yellow Tea-scentes China” with double flowers clear yellow,
“Fortune' S Double Yellow” yellow coppered.

Hybrid of Rosa odorata :

rose trees Hazel nut : “Blush Hazel nut” (“Old Blush” X Rosa moschata ) and its descendants, Hazel nut and tea-Hazel nut whose celebrates it “Mrs Alfred Carrière”
rose trees Bourbon : Rosa chinensis X Rosa gallica and Rosa damascena semperflorens
rose trees The or rose trees with odor of the: Rosa odorata X rose trees Bourbons or rose trees Hazel nut
rose trees tea-polyantha: rose trees the X rose trees polyantha

hybrid tonics : crossings of these various hybrids of Rosa chinensis ,
hybrid of the : hybrids tonics X rose trees the whose first France is “” obtained by Guillot in 1867.

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