ROSAL. - ROSE
Scientific Description:
Shrubs, usually deciduous. Stems and branches usually with prickles (or an armature of prickles, acicles and bristles, often grading into each other). Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets serrate; stipules usually vaginate with free auricles. Flowers solitary or in corymbs, hermaphrodite. Epicalyx absent; sepals 5, all equal or the 3 outer lobed and the 2 inner entire. Petals 5, yellow, white or pink to red. Stamens, styles and carpels numerous; ovule 1 per carpel, pendulous. Hypanthium urceolate, becoming coloured and ± fleshy when ripe; styles free or connate in a column, protruding through the orifice of the disc, stigmas usually forming a ± distinct head.
Reference:
Nilsson Ö (1972). Rosa L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 106.
Public Description:
Rosa, is a genus of shrubs, commonly known as “rose”, and is mostly native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwestern Africa. There are approximately 366 species in the world and 31 species (34 taxa) in Türkiye. They have sweet-smelling flowers and edible fruits. Their fruits are used for making jam, jelly, marmalade, and soup or are brewed for tea, for their high vitamin C content. Also, fruits are used to produce rose oil which is used in skin and makeup products and perfumery. In Türkiye, rose water obtained from these plants are used in some desserts such as güllaç (a kind of Turkish sweet, including rice wafers, milk, sugar, pomegranate, pistachio), Turkish delight, baklava, halva and kanafeh. Roses are the most well known ornamental plant, especially as an outdoor plant. It is also used against stomach problems.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose /,Accessed date: 31.05.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Rosaceae/Rosa//,Accessed date: 31.05.2016.
Aslan S (2012) Rosa L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 810–812.
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