Facts about Rose

The phrase sub rosa or "under the rose" has the meaning of keeping a secret.

Roses have been used as badges and symbols.

Rose hips of some species, especially the dog rose (Rosa canina) and rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant.

Sometimes the floors of banquet halls were covered in rose petals.

In Bulgaria, Iran, and Germany, damask roses (Rosa damascena 'Trigintipetala') are used.

The Ojibwa allied with the French in the French and Indian War, and with the British in the War of 1812.

The popularity of roses never slowed down and continues today.

Despite the presence of the thorns, roses are frequently browsed by deer.

Rather, the fossil record is neutral with respect to the mechanism of evolutionary change.

After the fall of Rome, roses fell on some disfavor in Europe and were not allowed to be brought into churches, although they were still grown for medicinal use.

Rose cultivation increased in popularity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in Holland, when trading ships brought rose bushes from China.

Today the rose is the national flower of England and the United States and the state or provincial flower of Yorkshire, Alberta, Iowa, North Dakota, Georgia, and New York.

The value of a rose is not so much in its fruit—although, the fruits have some nutritional and commercial value.

The Peace rose is the most famous and successful garden rose of all time.

The French artist Pierre-Joseph Redoutй, the official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, produced some of the most detailed paintings of roses.

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa.

In ancient times, roses were sacred to the goddesses Isis and Aphrodite.

In ancient Rome, roses were very popular, not only for their beauty but also for food and for many medicinal uses.

The making of perfume from rose petals dates from ancient times and is a major industry today.

From ancient times, the rose has had a strong hold on the human imagination, most often as a symbol of love and beauty.

The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.

The thorns are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it.

The main constituents of attar of roses are the fragrant alcohols geraniol, which have the empirical formula C10H18O and the structural formula CH3.C:CH.CH2.CH2.C:CH.CH2OH and l-citronellol; and rose camphor, an odorless paraffin.

The rotation of Jupiter's polar atmosphere is ~5 minutes longer than that of the equatorial atmosphere.

In 1994, over 1.2 billion roses were purchased by U.S. flower buyers; 4.67 per person.

People also sometimes eat rose hips, mainly for their vitamin C content.

Lists of rose species usually show between 100 and 150 with most botanists agreeing that the actual number is probably nearer the lower end of that range.

During the Second World War, rose hips were an important source of vitamin C in Great Britain when other fruits were scarce.

A few species of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points.

The Kaaba in Mecca is annually washed by the Iranian rose water from Qamsar.

Another belief is that if a young girl had more than one lover, she should take rose leaves and write the names of her lovers upon them before casting them into the wind.

England's Wars of the Roses were fought between the House of Lancaster, symbolized by a red rose, and the House of York, symbolized by a white rose.

Roses were very popular in the Roman Empire.

The name "rose" originates from Persian vrda, via Greek rhodon "rose" (Aeolic wrodon).

The fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip.

Roses were first cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago, whether for their beauty or for their edible fruit is not known.

Peter Beales, English rose grower and expert, said in his book Roses:: "'Peace', without doubt, is the finest Hybrid Tea ever raised and it will remain a standard variety forever."

Roses were carved in wood and stone and "rose windows" were created for church decoration.

After a time, the rose's reputation was redeemed and it came to be associated with the Virgin Mary.

Few plants have had such a hold on the human imagination as the rose.

Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam-distilling the crushed petals of roses.

When Meilland foresaw the German invasion of France, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose.

Roses are so important that the word for rose also means pink or red in some languages, including Spanish, Greek, and Polish.