Commercially available

• À Feuille de Chou
• À feuilles de chou
• Cabbage Provence
• Cabbage Rose
• Centfeuilles commune
• Centifolia
• Common Centifolia
• Common Provence
• Gul-i sad-warg
• Gul ssudburuk
• Kohl-Rose
• Old Cabbage Rose
• Ordinaire (Centifolia)
• Provence Rose
• R. centifolia
• Rosa centifolia L.
• R. gallica centifolia
• Rosa gallica var. centifolia Regel synonym
• Rosa x centifolia
• Rose à Cent Feuilles
• Rose Centfeuilles
• Rose Chou
• Rosier à Cent Feuilles

256 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  

Medium pink Centifolia.
Registration name: À Feuille de Chou,  Cabbage Rose

Bred by Unknown (before 1318).
Introduced in Australia by Camden Park in 1843 as 'Provence Rose'.

Centifolia, Hybrid Gallica.  

Pink.  Strong, rose fragrance.  Medium to large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, nodding or "weak neck" bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  

Armed with thorns / prickles, bushy, well-branched.  Large, semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 5' to 6'11" (150 to 210cm).  Width: up to 5' (up to 150cm).

USDA zone 4b through 9b.  

Tetraploid

'Common Provence' and 'Cabbage Provence' seem to have been distinct varieties.
Rosa centifolia seems to bloom in flushes throughout the year in temperate climates - see References.
The thirteenth-century agricultural and horticultural manual, Āsār va aḥyā' by Rashid al-din Fadl-allāh Hamadānī (1247?-1318), mentions varieties with one hundred and even two hundred petals. The earliest mention of R. centifolia seems to be in Zoroastrian religious writings of the VIIIth century or earlier.