This entry is for a full-blown garden rose, or a rose otherwise unspecified. See also Rose (bud).

☙ Rose

Genus Rosa L. (1753), particularly cultivated varieties.WFO

Period English: rose; full-blown rose; full-blown single rose.

Period French: rose f.; FDE DB rose de jardin f. ('garden rose') DB

Period German: Roſe f. B&M

Sentiments:

De Jardin:

Beuté passagèreTemporary beauty ◼ (1811). DB

Flower:

Beauty (1825-1850); HP:FE TTA CHW LH S&K HGA:OT

You are beautiful (1834); O&B

Beauty and love (1839); ESP

Genteel, pretty (1841-1845). LH S&K

Single flower:

Simplicity (1825-1836). HP:FE TTA

Bush:

TBC ◼ (1819). CLT

Leaves:

Do not importune (1834); O&B

I never importune (1845). S&K

Full-blown placed over two buds:

Secrecy (1836). TTA

Bouquet of full-blown:

Gratitude (1834). O&B

Garland:

Reward of virtue (1839-1845). ESP S&K

Crown of:

Reward of virtue (1825-1836); HP:FE TTA

Superior merit (1834); O&B

Reward of merit (1841-1845). LH S&K

Withered:

Reproach (1834); O&B

Fleeting beauty (1839). ESP

See also White rose (dried).

Heraldry:

Flower:

England. ESP

Hips:

Clan MacNab. HP:FE

Region: TBC.

Seasonality: TBC.

Period Colours: TBC.

Varieties and Species:

I have listed all current and future entries for roses for which I have identified the variety or species below for the reader's ease of navigation. Sentiments applied to these separate entries should be considered in substitute of those of a generic rose, rather than an appellation.

Rosa × alba L. (1753), WFO White rose of York;

Rosa × alba var. incarnata (Mill.) Weston (pre-1597), HMF Maiden's blush rose;

Rosa canina L. (1753), WFO Dog rose, briar rose or wild rose;

Rosa carolina L. (1753), WFO Carolina rose;

Rosa × centifolia L. (1753),WFO Cabbage rose, period 'hundred-leaved rose';

Rosa × centifolia 'Unique Blanche',HMF Unique rose;

Rosa × centifolia f. muscosa (Aiton) C.K.Schneid. (1905),WFO Moss rose;

Rosa × centifolia var. parvifolia (Ehrh.) Rehder (1916),WFO HMF Burgundy rose;

Rosa chinensis var. semperflorens (W M Curtis) Koehne (1893), HMF Slater's crimson china, period 'China rose', 'Chinese Damask rose' or 'Chinese dark rose';

Rosa × damascena Herrm. (1762), WFO Damask rose;

Rosa × damascena 'Quatre Saisons' (pre-1633), HMF Monthly rose;

Rosa foetida Herrm. (1762), WFO Austrian briar, period 'yellow rose';

Rosa foetida 'bicolor' (pre-1590), HMF Austrian rose;

Rosa gallica var. officinalis Ser. 'Versicolor', HMF Mundi rose;

Rosa gallica var. versicolor L., HMF Variegated rose, period 'York and Lancaster rose';

Rosa glauca Pourr. (1788) WFO (exhibition name R. rubrifolia), Red-leaved rose;

Rosa majalis Herrm. (1762), WFO Cinnamon rose, period 'May rose';

Rosa moschata Herrm. (1762), WFO Musk rose;

Rosa multiflora Thunb. (1784),WFO Multiflora rose;

Rosa pendulina L. (1753), WFO HMF Alpine rose, period 'thornless rose'.

For the Victorians' 'Bridal rose', see Roseleaf bramble.

For the Victorians' 'Christmas rose', see Hellebore.

For the Victorians' 'guelder rose', see Guelder-rose.

For the Victorians' 'Japan rose', see Camellia.