Rosa roxbunghii seed

LATIN NAME: Rosa roxburghii

COMMON NAME: Roxburgh Rose

The Roxburgh rose is a handsome, upright, open, prickly, deciduous shrub of the warm places, and its fine, pinnate leaves of the many toothed leaflets and its fine, large, pink or rose, single, fragrant flowers, followed by the large, round, densely prickly, orange-yellow, apple-like hips, have made it a treasured and fine plant of the region. It grows as an upright, open, prickly, deciduous shrub, reaching up to three metres or more, with the many upright, arching, prickly stems bearing the alternate, pinnate leaves of the many pointed, toothed leaflets and, through the late spring, the fine, large, pink or rose, single, fragrant flowers, followed by the large, round, densely prickly, orange-yellow, apple-like hips of the many fine, hairy seeds. It is a species of the flowering shrub in the rose family, and it is native to the warm places of the western and south-western China, while it is treasured for its fine, large, fragrant flowers and its fine, large, prickly hips, and it is known as the Roxburgh rose.

In the rose family it is the large-hip ped rose of the warm west, a shrub whose single, fragrant flowers give way to the great, prickly, apple-like fruits.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Roxburgh rose appears in the fruit-science papers of the region, where the large, orange-yellow hips are studied for their fine, bright ways and their rich store of the fruit vitamins. The botanists have mapped its place in the rose family and the warm flora of the west, and the wildlife ecologists have watched the bees on the single flowers and the birds at the prickly hips. It is a shrub of the garden-fruit kind, and the growers of the fruiting roses keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the garden, the Roxburgh rose is the large-flowered shrub of the sunny corner. Its fragrant flowers feed the bees, its large, prickly hips feed the birds, and the open, prickly growth gives cover and shelter to the small birds. The bright hips have been used in the fine drinks and the preserves of the region, and the shrub grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sunny, sheltered spot. Large-flowered, large-hip ped and generous.

Scrape the fine seeds out of the ripe hips and give them a cold, damp rest in a bag of moist sand in the fridge, then sow them shallowly in pots of loamy, free-draining soil, keep them moist and set the pots in a bright, sheltered spot, and they’ll come along in their own time.