Family: Rosaceae
Rosa canina
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 491 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Dog rose.
Description:
Prickly shrub; branches often arching; sparsely pubescent soon glabrescent, a few stout glandular hairs on petioles and leaf rhachises; leaves with 5-7 leaflets; leaflets ovate to elliptic, serrate, base rounded, apex acute.
Inflorescence a few-flowered corymb; pedicel glabrous; calyx longer than the receptacle; outer lobes pinnatifid, strongly reflexed after flowering; petals pink; stamens numerous; styles numerous; hip glabrous, dark-red, sepals scarcely persistent.
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Image source: fig 243 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Rosa canina
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Image source: fig 242 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE. Tas. Native to Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: in early summer, Oct. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Uses:
A variable species with many varieties and forms in Europe. Sometimes used as rootstock on which garden roses are budded.
Author:
Not yet available
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