R. beggeriana (su/arāy; Javānšir, p. 155), “a highly polymorphic species,” which has induced “some authors to split it up [into varieties], usually on the basis of a single character” (Zieliński, p. 14; cf. the 14 varieties thereof recorded by Ṯābeti for Persia, pp. 631-34). It is a shrub, 2-2.5 m high, with small white flowers in corymb or panicles; habitat: Gorgān, Māzandarān, Semnān, Tehran, Isfahan, Kohgiluya and Boir Aḥmad, Yazd, and Kermān (Ḵātamsāz, pp. 45, 47); also reported from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, etc. (Zieliński, pp. 13-14).
RHODOLOGIA: A discourse on roses, and the odour of rose (1844) Rose Perfumes John Charles Sawer
The flowers of most of the varieties of R. rubiginosa are inodorous, but those of R. platyacantha and R. Capucine (R. Eglanteria, Lin.), (especially the variety bicolor, Jacq.) belonging to this group, develop an odour of bugs and coriander. The same may be said of R. Beggeriana (R. coriosma, Decsn.).*
* This is a very remarkable coincidence; the coriander plant and its unripe fruit both possess the intensely disgusting odour of bugs, but the fruit at complete maturity, acquires the pure odour of coriander. The nature of the chemical action producing this modification in the odour is not understood.
Melissa, My guess is stink bugs, the scent some people claim to smell in R. foetida.
However, I think I may be offended. Coriander seeds are produced by the cilantro plant. I like cilantro, and find nothing disgusting in the unripe seeds.
I have encountered many stink bugs, but I haven't bothered to sniff them. Karl
(Book) Enumeratio Plantarum Novarum a cl. Schrenk lectarum (1841) By F. E. L. Fischer, C. A. Meyer pp. 73-74
Rosa Beggeriana Schrenk. R. (Synstylae DC.; vel. sect. IV. R. nobiles Koch) glaberrima; ramis decumbentibus; aculeis stipularibus rectis; stipulis omnibus conformibus oblongo-linearibus planis, auriculis denticulatis; petiolis aculeatis; foliolis 5-7 (parvis deciduis) oblongis simpliciter argute serratis; pedunculis uni-multifloris calycibusque subglobosis glabris, bracteis latis cinctis; sepalis subintegerrimis; stylis in columnam villosam staminibus breviorem cohaerentibus; ovulis sessilibus.
Proxima forsan R. arvensi, sed diversa aculeis raris stipularibus rectis, foliolis parvis, stylis in columnam brevem villosam cohaerentibus;—a R. Brunonii haud aegre dignoscitur glabritie, aculeis stipularibus rectis, stylorum columna brevi;— a R. moschata aculeis stipularibus rectis, calycibus globosis pedunculisque glaberrimis bracteis latis fultis, sepalis integris totaque facie diversa; a R. multiflora glabritie, stipulis subintegerrimis, stylis in columnam brevem cohaerentibus; a R. rubifolia aculeis caulinis raris stipularibus rectis, foliolis septenis rarius quinis, nunquam ternis, stylorum columna brevi etc.; a R. slylosa iisdem fere characteribus nec non sepalis integerrimis; a R. setigera aculeis rectis, pedunculis calycibusque laevibus, sepalis integerrimis et stylis in columnam brevem villosam cohaerentibus.
Rami elongati, tenues, decumbentes, aculeis rectis geminatis ad stipularum basin. Petioli tenues, vix puberuli, subtus aculeolis rectis armati. Foliola parva (6-7 lin. longa, 3 lin. lata, rarissime paulo majora, 9 lin. longa et 5 lin. lata), oblonga, acutiuscula, simpliciter serrata, basi integerrima. Pedunculi uni-biflori vel interdum subcorymbosi, bracteis tenuibus oblongis acuminatis glanduloso-serrulatis fulti. Flores parvi, albi vel dilutissime rosei. Calycis tubus globosus; sepala lanceolata, acuminata, apice nunquam dilatata, subintegerrima, superne villosa. Styli coaliti in columnae villosae latae atque brevis formam. Fructus maturi ignoti.
Specimina florifera ad fl. Koksu, d. 14 Junii. m. lecta.
Bulletins de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique, Volume 14: (1875) Primitiae Monographiae rosarum François Crépin p. 167 Rosa Beggeriana Schrenk. Dans l'herbier de Kew, j'ai recueilli une nouvelle indication géographique concernant le R. Beggeriana. Sous le nom de R. Brunonii, j'ai vu dans cet herbier un échantillon de la variété genuina du R. Beggeriana récolté en 1870 par M. le Dr Henderson dans son expédition à Yarkand.
In the Kew Herbarium, I collected a new geographical indication for R. Beggeriana. Under the name of R. Brunonii I saw in this herbarium a sample of R. Beggeriana var. genuina collected in 1870 by Dr. Henderson in his expedition to Yarkand.
