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'Violacea' rose References
Book  (Mar 1995)  Page(s) 115.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Maheka', 'Violacea') France, c. 1795. Description... out of flower, it has a distressingly gaunt appearance. Almost single flowers of purplish red, golden yellow stamens, colorful red hips...
Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 78.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plate 78 (Redouté, Vol. 3)
Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 27, 38.  
 
Page 27: the influence of other roses than Gallica is found in 'Violacea'
Page 38: ('La Belle Sultane', 'Gallica Maheka', 'Cumberland') It has undoubtedly many Gallica characteristics, but its vigorous arching growth up to 6 feet presents a problem. Nearly smooth stems and the leaves neatly rounded and drooping, suggesting a Damask inheritance... short flowering season... flowers: almost single, rich deep crimson, rapidly assuming violet flushes, but the bases of the petals remain nearly white around the yellow stamens...
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 294.  
 
La Belle Sultane Gallica, deep crimson, becoming violet, base white, almost single, ('Gallica Maheca'; 'Violacea'); ca. 1795.
Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 48.  Includes photo(s).
 
La Belle Sultane (R. gallica 'Violacea', 'Cumberland', 'Maheka') Gallica. Parentage: Unknown, possibly some centifolia. Origin unknown, but possibly 18th century. Description and cultivation... The almost single, fragrant flowers are violet-purple, 10 cm (4 in) wide, with fine golden stamens, and fade to violet...
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 405.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Violacea', 'La Belle Su[l]tane', 'Maheka', 'Cumberland'. Gallica.
Tall, pale-leafed and arching in growth, like a Damask, 'Violacea' flowers early in the season. While it does not stay out as long as some, it is a splendid sight in full bloom, the almost single flowers being deep rich purple, with an almost white zone around the golden stamens. Give it a pale rose, or a clump of something like a campanula, to set off its dark color, and let the experts fight over its origin and age. Parentage unknown. Summer flowering.

[Note - the very double photo acompanying this text is not that of 'Violacea']
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 12.  Includes photo(s).
 
They grow in clusters six to eight feet high, and appear to be a different development of the gallicas, with possibly a damask inheritance, and derived from some specialized condition or with a hybrid strain about them. The stems are set with reddish bristles, and the flowers are composed of two layers of petals, deep crimson and suffused with purple, having an almost white central zone surrounding a centre of golden stamens. With age the flower changes to violet crimson declining into slate or violet-brown, with this sad departure of youth, the stamens blacken. It has an early but short blooming season. According to Graham Thomas, it is a difficult rose to place...
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 25.  
 
La Belle Sultane ('Gallica Maheka', 'Cumberland') Description... tall-growing, almost single, known since 1795. Possibly a Gallica x a Damask... Tradition tells of Josephine's youthful friendship on Martinique with a distant cousin, Aimée du Buc de Rivery, whose father had a plantation. Sent to France for her education, Aimée was returning to Martinique in 1784 when her ship disappeared. She is supposed to have been captured by Barbary corsairs and taken to Algiers where she was sold to the Bey. From here she was sent as a gift to Sultan Selim III (d. 1807) in Constantinople where she entered his harem and became the mother of Mahmud II (b. 1785). Known as La Sultane Validée, she wielded considerable influence. An embroidery of the story has the girls visiting an old woman who prophesied that they would both become queens.
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 151.  
 
locatiuon 102/1, R. gallica L. violacea hort., branched, to 1.2 m, medium-dark green large matte foliage, 5 leaflets
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 45.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Violacea', 'La Belle Sultane', 'Cumberland', 'Maheka') An old Gallica known since the 18th century. Description. Calyx winged, showing possible Centifolia influence. The well-scented flowers become violet as they mature.
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