Rosa banksiae ‘Lutescens’

Family : Rosaceae
Class : Climbing Rose

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Text and pictures © Giuseppe Mazza

 

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English translation by Peter Thompson

 

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Rose with small, single yellow flowers and an intense sweet scent.

It is a form of the Rosa banksiae var. normalis Regel, a wild species which grows, between 500 and 2.000 metres of altitude, in the central western regions of China.

It blossoms in spring, and can reach 6 m in height with a width of 3 m.

 
→ History of the rose : from the Wild Roses towards a perfect rose.

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