Herbarium specimen: Rosa canina x rubiginosa = R. x nitidula
| Taxon: | Rosaceae: Rosa canina x rubiginosa = R. x nitidula Besser |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Rosaceae: Rosa canina x rubiginosa = R. x nitidula Besser |
| Collected by: | Mr Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod |
| Collection date: | 30/7/1906 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC58 Cheshire, Kidnal, SJ4749 |
| Institution: | Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | I am unable to name this Rose. I suggest hybridity with R. rubiginosa mainly on account of the presence of acicles on the flowering branches below the origin of the peduncles. R. larebrosa, Déségl., is said to have this characteristic, but differs in other important points, and several continental species are similar, but i cannot make them accord with the present one. The fact that only a small proportion of the fruit ever ripens, though of course no proof, favours the hybrid theory, and another, though even less important point, is the fact that the plant almost monopolizes about 15 yards of hedge row just as R. hibernica does in the Wirral Peninsula, but whether this is due to the effort to reproduce itself by root-runners, in defect of good fruit, or to the spinosissima influence in the hibernica hybrid, I cannot say. R. Robertsoni in Surrey behaves in the same way, but not other hybrids I have seen where there is no spinosissima, which is certainly absent from the present plant. Against the rubiginosa parentage is the fact that the glands on the leaves, though abundant enough, are very firm and scentless, those of that specie being very conspicuous, and turning darker on drying. The colour of the petals is a very pale rose. -- A. H. WOLLEY-DOD. "The very regular hooked prickles and the rosy tint of the leaves point to micrantha as one parent, and Major Wolley-Dod's suggestion of latebrosa as the other may well be correct." --A. LEY. "I should guess R. canina, L., to be the other parent." --E. S. MARSHALL. |
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