Rosa alba
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Rosa alba, Linn. Upright shrub, becoming 6 ft. high: sts. with scattered hooked prickles and sometimes with bristles: lfts. usually 5, broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, serrate, pubescent beneath, 1-2 in. long: upper stipules dilated: fls. more or less double, usually several, white, fragrant; pedicels glandular-hispid; receptacle usually smooth: fr. ovate, scarlet. June. Origin unknown, probably hybrid of R. gallica and R. dumetorum. Var. rubicunda, Roessig (R. incarnata, Mill. R. alba yar. incarnata, Pers.). Fls. double, white tinged with pink. W.R. 137.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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