Rose flowers 🌹

 Rose flowers 

The rose is a type of fowering shrub. Its name comes from the Latin  word Rosa.The flowers of the rose grow in many different colors, from the well-known red rose or yellow rose and sometimes white or purple rose. Roses belong to then family of plants called Rosaceae. All roses were originally wild and they come from several parts of the world, North America,Europe,northwest Africa and many parts of Asia  and Oceania. There are over 100 different Species of roses. The wild rose species can be grown in gardens, but most garden roses are cultivars, which have been chosen by people.

  Over hundreds of years they have been specially bred to produce a wide variety of growing habits and a broad range of colours from dark red to white including as well yellow and a bluish/lilac colour. Many roses have a strong, pleasant scent. Most roses have Prickles.  (incorrectly called thorns) on their Stems.  Rose bushes are able to tolerate a wide variety of growing conditions. The fruit of the rose is called a hip. Some roses have decorative hips.

Roses are widely used across the world as symbols  of love, sympathy or sorrow.

Rose is widely used as a girl's name. Also, roses protect themselves from other predators trying to hunt them with thorns, a widely known defense system.

There are thousands of rose cultivars that people grow in gardens and on farms. The names used to describe the different types often refer to one species that is the main ancestor of that group, for example, Gallica roses are mostly descended from Rosa gallica. Other groups have several different species among their ancestors. Hybrid Tea roses, Floribunda roses, and English roses are the most common in gardens today. They are of so many colours like red, yellow, orange, pink, purple and so on

• Alba roses
• Bourbon roses
• Centifolia roses
• China roses
• Climbing roses
• Damask roses
• English roses
• Floribunda roses
• Gallica roses