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Climbing habit, to 4 metres, slow to develop to this height
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From Global Times:
Chinese researchers have discovered Rosa lucidissima, a critically endangered species of Rosa chinensis, commonly known as China rose, in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
A joint expedition team from the Foding Mountain nature reserve administration and the College of Forestry of Guizhou University first discovered the species at a national-level reserve in Shiqian County.
"In a field survey in April, we located four plants of Rosa lucidissima at about 700 meters above sea level. The roses swirled up the trees, with eye-catching red flowers hanging from the branches," said Wu Xu, a team member from the College of Forestry of Guizhou University.
As an endemic Chinese species, Rosa lucidissima is sporadically distributed in southern and central China and its wild population is extremely rare. It is on China's red list of biodiversity as a critically endangered species.
Botanists believe that the national second-class protected wild plant species is the primitive form of China rose. Further study on it would offer an insight into the origin and evolution of the rose plants, which could provide an important reference for rose genetics breeding and ecological protection.
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Thank you for posting this John, hopefully there will be further work done. Lynne
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R.lucidissima is once blooming. Is it known how the later China roses developed the repeat blooming trait?
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Not that I am aware of. Obviously a chance mutation though. Repeat blooming roses were being extensively grown and bred during the Song period (960 - 1279 ad), in the city of Luoyang 41 different repeat flowering roses listed
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We've been propagating this rose for the last 10 years here in S.W. France and havn't sold one. Today I dumped our entire stock in exasperation!
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This sort of thing must be so disappointing for you and other nurseries who make the old roses available John. You are the best sorts of patrons but no-one's pockets are that deep.
Do you still have a Clg La France in your own collection?
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No Billy
The garden is principally for our collections + some species and other things we like a lot, we don't have the resources to look after the HT's and if we can't sell La France in France it's time to stop trying. A bit ironic now that the French have voted in the FN, LePen's nationalist party.
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25 MAR 17 by
 pminor
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So sorry to hear this even so long after the fact. I am looking to acquire from sacramento historical cemetery rose garden. I see roses in france germany italy england but cant order them. Because of agricultural restrictions.
I just love the old roses and i am new to roses.
Hope you are doing better now. So many sources www ent out of business after 2008, around 2010 and 2012 there seems to have been a huge reduction in businesses selling roses.
Pat
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The number of heritage roses available from nurseries in our area is also a small percentage of what was freely available 20 years ago but we are fortunate to still have nurseries that will custom bud these increasingly rare varieties - providing you can source budwood.
This is another way HMF is so invaluable.
Those members of the HMF community who list the roses growing in their own gardens help to create a picture of how scarce or abundant certain varieties are and a register of potential propagating material.
Could I ask all to consider using this feature to list the roses they grow?
If privacy is a concern, identifying information is not needed - many people use a nickname on HMF and restrict their location to a region, city or country.
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15 JUN by
Johno
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Climbing La France is available from Knight's Roses, Gawler, South Australia.
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Breeze Hill is also being sold as this rose
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