Phoenician Rose

Rosa phoenicia, the Phoenician rose, is a rambling or climbing, thorny wild rose species within the family Rosaceae. Native to the temperate Eastern Mediterranean and the Fertile Crescent, the species is an obligate or facultative geophyte specialized to freshwater alluvial floodplains, wetlands, and riparian banks. First systematically described in 1849, the plant holds significant horticultural and evolutionary importance as one of the direct ancestral progenitors involved in the ancient hybridization of the cultivated Damask rose. It...