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Article (magazine) published 1984.

Authored by Helmutt Merker

In 1920 S. Almquist described Rosa suionum as a species of the section Gallicanae, endemic to the coastal part of the province of Uppland (E central Sweden). He did only know it from cultivation but believed it had originated from a wild progenitor, existing in Sweden during the Post-Glacial warm period. This theory is, of course, highly improbable, especially since it has been shown that the rose was in fact cultivated in almost all parts of Sweden and even in Norway. Nevertheless, the species name has been widely used in Swedish horticultural literature for a not recurrent shrub rose with double, blush-pink, very fragrant flowers. In 1984 Mr Ernst Loménius found it in a Danish nursery garden under the name ‘Minette’; it had recently been obtained from Sangerhausen, DDR. Material and descriptions sent from Sangerhausen, as well as studies of early descriptions of ‘Minette’ prove that Rosa suionum is identical with R. x alba ‘Minette’ Vibert 1819. 

"The identification of Rosa suionum S. Almquist". Published in the "Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift", 1984, Vol. 78, pp. 309-312