Rosa alpina var. glandulosa(Bellardi ex Ser.) Nyman
Rosa alpina var. globosaDesv.
Rosa alpina var. gratianopolitanaRouy
Rosa alpina var. heterophyllaRouy
Rosa alpina var. humilisRouy
Rosa alpina var. intermediaGren.
Rosa alpina var. laevisSer.
Rosa alpina subsp. laevis(Ser.) Arcang.
Rosa alpina var. lagenaria(Vill.) Ser.
Rosa alpina var. lamotteanaRouy
Rosa alpina var. latifoliaSer.
Rosa alpina var. lixoniensisRouy
Rosa alpina var. macroacanthaRouy
Rosa alpina var. macrophyllaHagenb.
Rosa alpina var. monspeliaca(Gouan) Steud.
Rosa alpina subsp. monspeliaca(Gouan) Nyman
Rosa alpina var. montisludoviciRouy
Rosa alpina var. noricaJ.B.Keller
Rosa alpina var. nudaGren.
Rosa alpina var. nudipesRouy
Rosa alpina var. ovoideaRouy
Rosa alpina var. pendulina(L.) Loisel. & Michel
Rosa alpina var. provincialisRouy
Rosa alpina var. pseudopyrenaicaRouy
Rosa alpina var. pubescensGren.
Rosa alpina var. pyrenaica(Gouan) Ser.
Rosa alpina subsp. pyrenaica(Gouan) Nyman
Rosa alpina var. rotundifoliaBoullu
Rosa alpina var. setosaSer.
Rosa alpina var. subglobosaRouy
Rosa alpina var. sublaevisRouy
Rosa alpina var. vestitaGren.
Rosa alpiniformisHaynald ex Borb s
Rosa aucuparioidesDebeaux
Rosa balcanicaDimitrov
Rosa balsameaKit.
Rosa brandisiiJ.B.Keller ex Wiesb.
Rosa cinnamomeaL.
Rosa cinnamomea var. globosaDesv.
Rosa coccialbaKmet
Rosa croaticaKit. ex Kanitz
Rosa detonsaDebeaux
Rosa diplacantha(Borb s) Heinr.Braun
Rosa filispinaDebeaux
Rosa glandulosaBellardi
Rosa hybridaVill.
Rosa inermisTurra
Rosa × intercalarisD‚s‚gl.
Rosa laevis(Ser.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
Rosa lagenariaVill.
Rosa majalis var. globosa(Desv.) P.V.Heath
Rosa × malyiA.Kern.
Rosa monspeliacaGouan
Rosa odoratissimaScop.
Rosa pendulaSalisb.
Rosa pendulaRoth
Rosa pendulina var. aculeata(Ser.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. adenophora(Kit.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. alpina(L. ex Hartm.) Heinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina var. balsamea(Kit.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. borbasiiR.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. bosniaca(J.B.Keller & Wiesb.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. croatica(Kit.) Borb s
Rosa pendulina var. curtidens(H.Christ) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. ebelii(Heinr.Braun) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina subsp. ebeliiHeinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina var. globosa(Desv.) Hayek
Rosa pendulina var. imhoofiiR.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. intercalaris(D‚s‚gl.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. intermedia(Gren.) C.Vicioso
Rosa pendulina var. laevis(Ser.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. lagenaria(Vill.) Heinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina subsp. mediterraneaKl št.
Rosa pendulina var. norica(J.B.Keller) Heinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina var. opacaChrshan.
Rosa pendulina var. ovoidea(Rouy) C.Vicioso
Rosa pendulina var. popoviiChrshan.
Rosa pendulina var. pseudopyrenaica(Rouy) C.Vicioso
Rosa pendulina var. pubescens(W.D.J.Koch) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. pyrenaica(Gouan) Fiori
Rosa pendulina var. rupestrisCrantz ex Heinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina var. scabriuscula(H.Christ) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. setosa(Ser.) R.Keller
Rosa pendulina var. sternbergii(Heinr.Braun) Heinr.Braun
Rosa pendulina var. sublaevis(Rouy) C.Vicioso
Rosa pimpinellifolia subsp. alpinaL. ex Hartm.
Rosa pyrenaicaGouan
Rosa recurvaKit.
Rosa reversaW.D.J.Koch
Rosa rubrifolia var. glandulosaBellardi ex Ser.
Rosa rupestrisCrantz
Rosa semisimplex(Borb s) Heinr.Braun
Rosa semisimplex var. adenophora(Kit.) Borb s ex R.Keller
Rosa setosa(Ser.) Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
Rosa stenodonta(Borb s) Heinr.Braun
Rosa tenuiflora(Borb s) Heinr.Braun
Rosa turbinataVill.
Rosa villarsiiTratt. ex Link
Rosa pendulina, (syn. Rosa alpina), the Alpine rose or mountain rose, is a species of wild rose found in the mountains of central and southern Europe. It appears to have survived in glacial refugia in the Alps and Carpathians, and spread out from there.[4] A climbing shrub with deep pink flowers and relatively few thorns, it has had a history of cultivation as an ornamental plant.
Rosa pendulina is a climbing (or rambling) shrub between 0.5 and 2m, rarely 3m tall. The flowers are typically semi-doubled and deep pink to fuchsia, brightening towards the center. It can be distinguished from other members of its genus by its relative lack of thorns (prickles), especially higher up on the plant, its oblong fruits (hips) which hang downwards (are pendulous, hence the specific epithet), its hispid peduncles and petioles, and its smooth stems and branches.[5] The chromosome number is 4n = 28.[6]
Ripe hips
Distribution
It prefers to grow in relatively warmer, shadier, and wetter areas alongside streams, in openings in forests, or on rock piles, between 350 and 2,500m above sea level.[1]
It is mostly found in the subalpine zone of the mountains of Central and Southern Europe: the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Alps (at elevations of up to 2300–2600m in the various parts of the range), throughout the Carpathians (up to 1800m in the Tatras), in Czechia and adjacent areas of Germany and Poland, in the Apennines and in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula (at elevations of 1000–2500m in Bulgaria).[7][8][9]
It has been introduced to New England and can be found growing as a garden escapee elsewhere.
Cultivation
Often called by its synonym Rosa alpina, the Alpine rose has been in cultivation for hundreds of years (c.1683), with many varieties that are practically forgotten today.[10][11][12] It has contributed genetically to an unknown, but large, number of extant rose cultivars.[13] It flowers early, has a pleasing, strong fragrance, and is nearly thornless, all desirable traits for rose breeders. An undesirable trait is that it has weak pedicels supporting the flowers, which leads to the pendulous habit of the fruits. It is hardy to USDA Zone 4a.
Varieties
Numerous varieties (and even subspecies) were described for R. pendulina and R. alpina (see list of synonyms), but these have all been collapsed into R. pendulina.
Hybrids
Rosa pendulina is said to be the parent of a number of hybrids.
Rosa × anachoreticaSchmidely (R. montana × R. pendulina)[14]
Many of these cultivars are quite old and would be assessed differently using modern standards. Rose fanciers tended to call all sports, chance seedlings, regional variants, natural hybrids, and artificial hybrids "varieties" rather than "cultivars". Some, such as the Boursault roses, would probably be considered Groups today. Simply having some R. pendulina ancestry, such as with the Moomin rose (Rosa 'Tove Jansson'), does not make a rose a cultivar of R. pendulina.
'Amadis' (Crimson Boursault. The Boursaults are said to be R. chinensis × R. pendulina with some uncertainty)[25][26]:7
↑ Wilkes, John (1827). Encyclopædia Londinensis, Vol 22. p.374.
↑ Bojnanský, Vít; Fargašová, Agáta (7 November 2007). Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora: The Carpathian Mountains Region. p.257. ISBN9781402053610.
↑ Kurtto, Arto; Lampinen, Raino; Junikka, Leo (2004). Atlas florae Europaeae, distribution of vascular plants in Europe. 13: Rosaceae (Spiraea to Fragaria, excl. Rubus). Helsinki: Committee for mapping the flora of Europe and Societas Biologica Fennica. pp.55–56. ISBN978-951-9108-14-8.
↑ Meusel, Hermann; Jäger, E.; Weinert, E. (1965). Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Vol.[Band I]. Jena: Fischer. T535, K224.
↑ Dimitrov, Stojan (1973). "Shipka – Rosa L.". In Vǎlev, Stoju; Asenov, Ivan (eds.). Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija (in Bulgarian). Vol.V. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. pp.158–59.
↑ Harkness, Peter (2003). The Rose: An Illustrated History. p.101. ISBN9781552977873.
↑ Wilson, Ernest Henry (1917). Aristocrats of the Garden. p.12. ISBN9781429012928.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
↑ Harrison, Joseph (1851). The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. London: Whittaker and Co. p.154.
↑ Botanica's Roses: Over 1,000 Pages & over 2,000 Roses Listed. 2000. p.607. ISBN9781571456618.
1 2 3 Shepherd, Roy E.; Meikle, Catherine E.; Rowley, Gordon (1958). Modern Roses V: A Concise Descriptive List of All Roses in Commerce or of Historical or Botanical Importance. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: J. Horace McFarland Company in Cooperation with The American Rose Society.
↑ Schneider, Peter (14 December 2012). Right Rose, Right Place: 3509 Perfect Choices for Beds, Borders, Hedges, and Screens, Containers, Fences, Trellises, and More. p.46. ISBN9781603420471.
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