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| synonyms: `The Incense Rose`, Rosa ecae subsp. primula (Boul.) Roberets, |
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| colour: Yellow |
| height: Average Shrub 2.5 - 5 feet (0.75 m - 1.5 m) |
| scent: Other scent: Musk, Myrrh, Violets, Lemon, etc. |
| introduction: 1901 - 1925 |
| usda zone: Zone 5 (-22ºC/-7.6ºF to -27ºC/-16.6ºF) |
| flowers: Single |
| repeat: Once Flowering |
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This rose was raised from seed collected by F M Meyer in 1910 near Samarkand in central Asia, but has not been recognized in recent Russian floras. It makes a bush up to 2m high, with very aromatic foliage, with an incense scent and exceptionally long leaves which may have as many as 15 leaflets on strong shoots, 9-13 on flowering side branches. It differs from R. ecae and R. kokanica in its delicate well scented, pale yellow flowers. It flowers early in the season. The hips are pale red, rather infrequent. Zone 5, will survive down to s |
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