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'Viridiflora' rose References
Book  (1996)  Page(s) 30.  Includes photo(s).
 
Viridiflora ('Green Rose', R. chinensis 'Viridiflora') China bush... more of a curiosity than a thing of beauty... an odd item to include in flower arrangements... This closely resembles an old Chinese garden rose, 'Lü E'. It was apparently growing in South Carolina about 1833 and was being offered by French growers in the 1850s, who received it from America via England.
Book  (Mar 1994)  Page(s) 117.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa cinensis "Viridiflora" ('Green Rose') Cluster-flowered rose. Known since 1833. Description... Flowers with very numerous, completely green, very small petals with a sawtoothed edge, which must be described as bracts because of their form and color... Completely sterile. Blooms in large clusters, rarely singly.
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 226.  
 
China (OGR), (R. chinensis viridiflora; R. viridiflora); Cultivated prior to 1845. Flowers green, often touched with bronze, double, with narrow leaf-like petals, 1 1/2-2 in. blooms borne singly and in clusters; medium, upright growth; recurrent.
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 77.  
 
[Listed as 'Viridiflora'] Description. In this rose the petals are entirely missing and have been replaced by numerous green sepals giving the effect of a green rose… a sport from the 'Old Blush China'. Introduced 1855.
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 104.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Viridiflora', 'Green Rose') A China. Known snce 1843. A sport of 'Old Blush' in which the sepals have prolierated at the expense of the petals.
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Viridiflora ('The Green Rose') China. Bambridge & Harrison, 1855. Sport of R. chinensis 'Parsons' Pink'. [Author cites a great deal of information from different sources. From the Journal des Roses, the synonym 'Bengale à Fleurs Vertes'. A quote from Buist, "It was caught in Charleston, S.C., about 1833, and came to Baltimore through Mr. R. Halliday, from whom I obtained it, and presented two plants to my old friend Thomas Rivers in 1837.]
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 15.  
 
('Lü E'; 'Green Calyx') [its] modified leaves substitute for petals … left no descendant because it was a rose without a flower.
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 69.  Includes photo(s).
Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Viridiflora (chinensis)  ‘The Green Rose’.  A strange rose - really a novelty or collector’s specimen. Disappointing flowers of a drab green, tinted brown, but very useful for flower arrangements. 1833 (C) 4 x 3’.
Website/Catalog  (1946)  Page(s) 27.  
 
VIRIDIFLORA (Rosier Bengale Harisson 1856). Curiosité botanique, ce rosier présente une rose verte ayant le même aspect que les feuilles.
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