''Rosa fedtschenkoana'' is a species in the plant genus ''
Rosa
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'' in the family
Rosaceae. Some authorities consider it a synonym of ''
Rosa webbiana
''Rosa webbiana'', occasionally called Webb's rose, wild rose, or thorny rose, is a widely distributed species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is native to Central Asia, Tibet and Xinjiang in China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the weste ...
''.
It is native to the foothills of the
Ala Tau,
Tian Shan
The Tian Shan,, , otk, 𐰴𐰣 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, , tr, Tanrı Dağı, mn, Тэнгэр уул, , ug, تەڭرىتاغ, , , kk, Тәңіртауы / Алатау, , , ky, Теңир-Тоо / Ала-Тоо, , , uz, Tyan-Shan / Tangritog‘ ...
and
Pamir-Alai mountain ranges in central Asia and northwest China. It is named after
Olga Fédchenko, a Russian botanist. It is
deciduous
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, forming a bushy and suckering shrub up to 2.5 metres high and as much across. The branches are covered in many
prickles, many of which are fine and straight, but some are thicker and slightly hooked. The
pinnate
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leaves are pale greyish green in colour and have usually between 7 and 9 leaflets. The flowers are white, up to 5 cm across, and are borne singly or in small clusters at the tips of the branches throughout the summer months. The flowers' scent has been described as being "like 'Hovis'
rownbread with a little blackberry jam". The flowers are followed by small, pear-shaped, bristly orange-red fruits.
Recent
DNA research has discovered that ''R. fedtschenkoana'' is one of the parents of the
''damask'' group of garden roses (the other species involved being ''
R. moschata'' and ''
R. gallica'').
[Quest-Ritson, C. and Quest-Ritson, B., ''The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Roses'', Dorling Kindersley, 2003, p9] This accounts for the
remontant
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(repeat-flowering) nature of some damasks (the ''autumn damasks''), as ''R. fedtschenkoana'' is one of the few remontant wild roses.
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fedtschenkoana
Flora of Central Asia
Flora of Xinjiang
Tian Shan
Plants described in 1876