Species: Celsiana rose (Rosa damascena 'Celsiana')
Family: Roses (ROSACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NE
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Roses (ROSACEAE)
The Rose family gives us many of our most commercially important fruits, such as the Prunus species. They have alternate leaves and 5-petalled flowers.
C. Celsiana rose (Rosa damascena 'Celsiana')
There are anywhere between 100 and 300 Rosa species, of which there are innumerable cultivars. The handful of roses planted in the north-east corner of the cemetery, just behind the gates, are therefore not each distinct species. They are cultivars, deliberately planted, and therefore certainly not 'wild' or 'native'. They are listed here as a record - and because these particular 'old roses' were planted by the Friends of Heene Cemetery to remember those people buried in the cemetery who have no headstone to mark their burial.
Celsiana is an old rose cultivar, a Damask rose (an old group said to have been brought to Europe from the Middle East by the Crusaders). It has large, semi-double, pale pink flower heads. It was first hybridized in the 1750s. More details can be found on the David Austin website.
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Celsiana rose
Celsiana is an old rose cultivar, a Damask rose (an old group said to have been brought to Europe from the Middle East by the Crusaders). It was first hybridized in the 1750s.
