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'American Musk Rose' Reviews & Comments
Discussion id : 87-326
most recent 15 AUG 15 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 14 AUG 15 by CybeRose
The Rose Fancier’s Manual, p. 4 (1838)
Mrs. Gore

Quitting the borders of streams and marshy savannahs, we find in the forests and stony districts the Rosa diffusa, of which the pink flowers blossom in pairs early in the summer. On the rising grounds of Pennsylvania, grows the Rosa parviflora, a diminutive shrub, of which the small, half-blown, elegant double-flowers, slightly tinged with the most delicate pink, constitute one of the most beautiful species of North America, but extremely difficult of culture and propagation. On the outskirts of the Pennsylvanian forests, grows the *Rosa stricta*, with flowers of a pale red; the Rosa rubifolia, the flowers small, pale red, and flowering in clusters of three; and, in South Carolina, the Rosa setigera, the petals of whose red blossoms are shaped like a reversed heart. The Creoles of Georgia adorn their hair with the large white blossoms of the Rosa laevigata, a climbing plant, whose long tendrils are found interlaced among the most majestic forest trees.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 15 AUG 15 by Patricia Routley
Thanks Karl. I have only added the one sentence, but please tell me if you think it needs the entire paragraph.
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Discussion id : 43-365
most recent 22 MAR 10 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 22 MAR 10 by Cass
The names Rosa stricta Donn, Rosa stricta Lindl., and Rosa americana Waitz fail to appear in any of the major U.S. or Canadian species databases: USDA PLANTS database (U.S. Department of Agriculture), TROPICOS (Missouri Botanical Garden) or ITIS (Government of Canada). Crépin dismissed both names in "Primitiae Monographiae Rosarum, XII Prodrome d'une monographie des Roses Américaines" published in 1876. Crépin dismissed Rosa stricta as a mistake or as R. blanda var. setigera [R. arkansana]. He viewed the herbarium specimen of R. americana and dismissed it as R. pimpinellifolia.

Both names appear to be synonyms, but of what is not sure. Rosa arkansana varies widely in form and has a very extensive distribution, but that is pure speculation.
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