Species: Rose de Rescht (Rosa damascena 'Rose de Rescht')
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. Rose de Rescht (Rosa damascena 'Rose de Rescht')
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.
Rose de Rescht 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). This bright magenta-flowered rose was first hybridized in 1840. More details can be found on the David Austin website.
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Rose de Rescht rose
Rose de Rescht 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). This bright magenta-flowered rose was first hybridized in 1840.
