The rose
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Posted by admin | Posted in Roses | Posted on 05-10-2008
Tags: rose history and magic, rose symbolism, roses perfume, scented roses
The Rose is a flowering shrub of the Rosa genus, being a part of the Rosaceae family. We admit the rose’s distinction as the “queen flower”, so called because of its symbolism and variety.
By hybridization, the specialists had made the greatest change on the rose’s aspect, adding more petals. A rose had had only five petals, as the wild roses and those who are growing on the end of the road are having now. Except them, all the roses’ species have numerous petals. That’s why the Greek origin of the “rose” word means “30 petals”. And it’s not all: there are more than 30 thousand rose’s species with different colors and flavor.
We have to point out that, after a laboratory work, was created the blue version of the rose. So called “blue roses” were traditionally made from dyeing white roses. But the true blue colored rose appeared in 2004 using a genetic process, by conventional hybridization methods.