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'Te Mihanere' rose Description
'R. rubiginosa' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Simon Voorwinde
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Synonyms:
Common Sweet-Briar
Double White Hip
Egelantier
Eglanteria
Eglantine (species)
"Light Pink Eglantine from SJHRG"
R. eglanteria
Rosa eglanteria L. synonym
R. rubiginosa
Rosa rubiginosa 'Eglantine'
Rosa rubiginosa L.
Schottische Zaun-Rose
Sweet Briar
Sweetbriar
The Missionary
Weinrose

Also referenced as:  Eglenteria simplex,  Rose de l'Englentier odoriferant,  Rosa Englenteria,  Rosa eglenteria,  Single Eglantine,  Rosa sylvestris odora,  Sweet Brier,  Gul nusreen usturoon,  Rosa uliginosa Gilib. Synonym
HMF Ratings:
92 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
Light pink Species.
Exhibition name: R. rubiginosa
Class:
Found Rose, Hybrid Rubiginosa, Species / Wild.  
Bloom:
Light pink.  Strong, green apple fragrance.  5 petals.  Average diameter 1.5".  Single (4-8 petals) bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  Fragrant buds.  
Habit:
Arching, armed with thorns / prickles.  Fragrant foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  
Height of 6' to 15' (185 to 455 cm).  Width of 5' to 8' (150 to 245 cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b through 9b.  Produces decorative hips.  shade tolerant.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  
Ploidy:
Pentaploid
Notes:
R. rubiginosa Linnaeus (1771) Foliage smells like apples.
From Roses of America, p. 41: One of the most famous references to it is in Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream, where Oberon describes Titania's bower:
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

The Eglantine has naturalized in North America, where it is found far and wide. Britton and Brown documented it in Virginia and Tennessee as Rosa rubiginosa (Britton & Brown, not Linnaeus). It is also found along the coast of California, where it is a favorite food of the native deer and a sad windblown sight, and in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
 
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