Rosehip is soft , or Rose is soft [2] ( lat. Rosa mollis ) - a species of dicotyledonous plants of the genus Rosehip ( Rosa ) of the family Pink ( Rosaceae ). First described by British botanist James Edward Smith in 1813 [3] [4] .
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Content
- 1 Distribution and habitat
- 2 Botanical Description
- 3 Value
- 4 Environmental situation
- 5 Synonyms
- 6 notes
Distribution and habitat
Known from Albania , Belgium , Great Britain ( England ), Denmark (including the Faroe Islands ), Finland , France , Ireland , Switzerland , Spain , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Croatia , Serbia (including Kosovo), Portugal , Norway , Poland , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Russia (the European part), Belarus , Ukraine , Georgia , Armenia , Turkey (peninsula Asia Minor ) and Sweden . It may also grow in Germany [5] .
It occurs on dry rocky slopes, pastures, and fringes [6] .
Botanical Description
A spiky deciduous shrub [2] 0.5-1.5 m high [6] .
The leaves are complex, oval or elliptical [2] , soft, double-serrated, gray-green in color, covered with glandular hairs below [6] ; placed alternately [2] . The leaves have a tarry smell [6] .
The flowers are large, single or collected in an inflorescence of 2-3; serrated petals, ranging in color from pink to light purple [6] .
The fruit is a glandular-hairy spherical multi-root red in color [6] .
It blooms in June and July [6] .
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28 [7] .
Value
Grown as an ornamental plant [2] .
Environmental Situation
Soft rosehips are listed in the Red Books of Latvia and the Leningrad Region of Russia [2] .
Synonyms
Synonymous names [3] :
- Rosa cujavica Sprib. , sensu auct.
- Rosa heldreichii Boiss. & Reut.
- Rosa kitaibelii borb.
- Rosa mollissima boiss.
- Rosa villosa auct.
- Rosa villosa subsp. mollis ( Sm. ) R. Keller & Gams
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rosa mollis : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and illustrated atlas of species).
- ↑ 1 2 Rosa mollis Sm. - The Plant List
- ↑ Tropicos | Name - Rosa mollis Sm
- ↑ Catalog of Life: Rosa mollis Sm
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Soft Downy Rose, Rosa mollis - Trees and shrubs - NatureGate
- ↑ Tropicos | Name - Rosa mollis Sm