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• Damas ordinaire
• Damascenerrose
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• Double Red Damask Rose
• Gul-i Muhammadi
• Red Damask (damask)
• R. calendarum
• Rosa calendarum Münchh. ex Borkh. SYNONYM
• R. damascena
• Rosa damascena Mill.
• R. gallica damascena
• Rosa gallica var. damascena synonym
• R. X damascena
• Rosa X damascena Mill.
• Rosier de Damas

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Light pink Damask.
Registration name: Summer Damask
Exhibition name: R. calendarum

Bred by Unknown (before 1455).
Introduced in Australia by Tasmania Botanical Gardens in 1859 as 'R. damascena'.

Damask.  

Pink.  Strong, damask, sweet fragrance.  Average diameter 2.5".  Medium, semi-double to double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  Long sepals buds.  

Arching, armed with thorns / prickles, bushy, spreading.  Grey-green foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 5' to 6' (150 to 185cm).  Width: up to 5' (up to 150cm).

USDA zone 4b through 9b.  Can be used for cut flower, garden or hedge.  Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..  Prune after flowering is finished.  

Tetraploid

Rosa x damascena Mill. Gard. dict. ed. 8. Rose no.15: 1768.
Recent research in Japan indicates that both summer and autumn damask roses originated with (R. gallica X R. moschata) X R. fedtschenkoana. Gene, Vol. 259, Issues 1-2, 23 December 2000, Pages 53-59.
Rosa belgica Mill. is today seen by botanists as a synonym of Rosa x damascena Mill. However, the descriptions of Miller are quite different re habit, number of leaflets, fragrance, sepals, bloom form. It is probable Belgica was actually a hybrid damask. Modern Roses says it was a alba-canina hybrid.