Common name: Austrian Yellow Rose, Austrian copper rose, Austrian-briar
Botanical name:Rosa foetidaFamily:Rosaceae (Rose family) Synonyms: Rosa lutea, Rosa eglanteria, Rosa chlorophylla
Austrian Yellow Rose is a shrub up to 3 m. Young
branches are chestnut-brown, hairless, often shining. Prickles are
irregularly set on the stems, straw-coloured, abruptly dilated at base,
patent or declining, acicles and stalked glands absent. Leaves are
compound with leaflets 5-7-9, up to 2 cm long, elliptic or obovate,
pointed or blunt, hairless on both sides or sparsely pubescent beneath,
smooth or glandular, doubly or rarely simply toothed. Stipules are
normally with long, divergent ears. Flowers are solitary or 2-3, petals
up to 3 cm long, yellow, sometimes suffused with red below.
Flower-stalks are smooth or with stalked glands. Sepals are usually
with lateral lobes, rarely entire, dilated at tip, ascending or patent
in fruit, persistent. Styles are densely pubescent, forming large,
compact head. Mature hypanthium is globose, red (?), often undeveloped.
Austrian Yellow Rose is native to SW and C Asia, Afghanistan, commonly
planted and semi-naturalized in Lahaul.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh.
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