Botanical name:Rosa foetida f. persianaFamily:Rosaceae (Rose family) Synonyms: Rosa lutea var. persiana Lemaire
Persian Yellow Rose is a beautiful rose native to
W. Asia. It is now naturalized in Lahaul and Ladakh. Flowers are deep
yellow, double (having more than
one layer of petals), borne singly, rarely several, 4-6.5 cm across.
Flower-stalks are 4-5 cm long, hairless, bracts absent. The green cup
below the flower is depressed-spherical, hairless. Sepals are 5, about
twice as long as the green cup, triangular-lanceshaped, leaflike,
sparsely velvety below densely hairy above, margin entire or outer
ones with a few fine lateral appendages. Styles free, not protruding.
The plant is a shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Branchlets are red-brown, slender,
hairless. Prickles are sparse, round straight, up to 7 mm, abruptly
flaring at base, sometimes intermixed with small prickles and bristles.
Leaves including stalk are 4-6 cm long. Stipules are mostly adnate to
leaf-stalk, free parts ovate-lanceshaped, tip long-pointed. Rachis and
leaf-stalk are velvety. Leaflets are 5-9, rarely 11, dark green above,
broadly ovate or obovate, sparsely velvety below, velvety or hairless
above, base almost rounded or broadly wedge-shaped, margin
double-toothed, tip pointed or flat. Fruit (Hip) is red, spherical,
with persistent, erect sepals. Persian Yellow Rose is found in West
Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan. In India it is found growing wild in Lahaul & Ladakh.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Sanju, Ladakh.
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