Rosa damascena
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Rosa damascena, Mill. (A. bifera, Pers. R. calendarum, Borkh.). Damask Rose. Attaining 5 ft.: sts. usually with numerous stout and hooked prickles, sometimes mixed with glandular bristles: lfts. usually 5, sometimes 7, ovate-oblong, serrate, more or less pubescent beneath, 1-2 1/2 in long; stipules scarcely dilated, sometimes pectinate ; petioles prickly : fls. usually corymbose, double, red, pink or white, sometimes striped ; pedicels and receptacles glandular-hispid; sepals deciduous, reflexing during flowering-time: fr. obovate. June, July, and again in autumn. Red. Ros. (2:16, 6). W.R. 124. Origin unknown: intro. to Eu. from Asia Minor in the 16th century. Var. trigintipetala, Dieck, with semi- double red fls., is considered to be the rose chiefly cult, in S. E. Eu. for the manufacturing of attar. Gt. 38, p. 129. G.G. III. 7:45.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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