Native to western China, this rose variety is not only one of the most refined among rose species, with unique qualities and colors, but also a landmark in rose history. It was introduced to cultivation in Europe in 1908. Both the deep red of its flowers and its distinctive rose hips spurred renewed interest in the cultivation of wild roses.
Description: This variety grows to a large size and can only be cultivated in spacious areas. When established, it forms a tall canopy of small, dark green, bluish-tinged compound leaves with 7 to 13 leaflets. Its stems are covered in thorns.
Flowering: The flowers appear in small clusters and are a deep blood red, although this color is not the most common in its native habitat. However, it is the hue that defines the Rosa moyesii variety. The pink form, more frequent when propagated by seed, is known in Europe as Rosa moyesii 'Fargesii'. Although its five-petaled flowers are notable for their color, its rose hips are probably the most valuable feature for identifying the species. No other rose has such striking and unusual rose hips: elongated, pitcher-shaped, sometimes hairless and other times covered with glandular spines. It blooms in mid-spring and does not rebloom. This rose is very fertile and highly attractive to pollinating insects, allowing for self-pollination.
Varieties at Casa Frey: On the grounds of Casa Frey, one can observe not only the original variety with its deep blood-red flowers, but also about four other varieties, differing in flower color, size, and structure, as well as in leaf color. The shades range from the original red to various hues of pink, from pale pink to fuchsia. The leaves vary from dark blue-green to lighter greens.
Text by Rafael Maino.
"Native to the western part of China, this variety of roses is not only one of the most refined among the species, with unique qualities and colors, but also a reference point in the history of roses. Text by Rafael Maino.
Introduced to cultivation in Europe in 1908, both the intense red of its flowers and its unique and magnificent hips sparked new interest in the cultivation of wild roses.
This variety grows to large proportions and can only be cultivated in large spaces. Where it thrives, it forms a raised canopy of small compound leaves with 7 to 13 leaflets, dark green with a bluish tint. Its stems are covered with thorns.
The flowers grow in small clusters and are an intense blood-red color. This blood-red hue is not common in its native place, but it takes precedence in naming the Rosa moyesii variety. The pink form, sometimes resulting from seed planting, is more common and is known in Europe as Rosa moyesii 'Fargesii'.
Although its five-petaled flowers are of magnificent color, its hips are probably the most valuable feature that earns the species the recognition it deserves, as no other species produces such striking hips with such an unusual elongated jar shape, sometimes smooth and other times covered in glandular spines. It blooms in mid-spring and does not repeat flowering.
In the Frey estate, one can observe not only the original blood-red variety but around four other varieties in different colors, ranging from the original to various shades of pink, from pale pink to fuchsia, also with differences in flower size and structure, as well as leaf color, from the original dark bluish-green to lighter green shades.
Since the Frey-Neumeyer estate, as well as the surrounding region (and the rest of Argentina), has few species of wild roses with which the original R. moyesii could hybridize, based on references about behavior and suggested hybridizations in the Northern Hemisphere (already identified and named: eg, R. moyesii 'Geranium', R. moyesii 'Fargesii', R. moyesii 'Hillierii', R. moyesii 'Highdownensis', etc.), it can be concluded that the various varieties growing at the Frey estate are the result of spontaneous mutations from seed planting.
R. moyesii is very fertile and highly attractive to pollinating insects, allowing for self-pollination, while cross-pollination is difficult due to the absence of other species that could intervene. """ | | | Rosa omeiensis 'Lutea' | | Rose | ""This species is supposedly a hybrid between Rosa sericea pteracantha and Rosa xanthina, native to Asia, and found in the wild in northern Burma. It forms large bushes with very wide thorns at the base of the stems, typical of the f. pteracantha form, along with numerous spiny thorns.
Its leaves consist of small, oval leaflets, 7 to 11 in number. The flowers are cup-shaped, pale yellow with a strong fragrance.
This rose is the first to bloom here in Bariloche, from mid to late November, and is very attractive to pollinating insects, producing small, round brown hips. It is highly fertile, and because it flowers so early, there is no other rose variety in bloom to allow for cross-hybridization, so its seeds produce plants identical to the mother plant.
The Frey estate garden is populated by this species, as its seeds have spread throughout the land, producing new plants, with no variants recorded. Text by Rafael Maino.
Text by Rafael Maino.
