Sunday 20 July 2008

JWW4 "The Rose"





The first flower shows on 210708. How will 24 lonely seeds, now registered as JWW4, fair under the watchful and caring wing of the JWW4 organisation. This first showing takes us through the first two months of growth. Two down twenty two to go.
Baron Jean-Guillaume Neuilly

Rosa chinensis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosa chinensis, known commonly as the China Rose is a member of the genus
Rosa native to central China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan.

It is a
shrub growing to 1-2 m tall. The leaves are pinnate, with 3-5 leaflets, each leaflet 2.5–6 cm long and 1–3 cm broad. In the wild species (sometimes listed as Rosa chinensis var. spontanea), the flowers have five pink to red petals. The fruit is a red hip 1-2 cm diameter.


Uses
The species is extensively cultivated in China as an
ornamental plant; numerous cultivars have been selected, with varying flower colour and usually an increased number of petals (semi-double or double flowers). The species is also important in the breeding of many modern garden roses, including the Hybrid Tea roses.

The flowers and fruits are used in
traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of irregular and/or painful menstruation, as well as swollen thyroid.





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