RED-LEAVED ROSE
REDLEAF ROSE
Rosa glauca
Rose [Rosaceae] 
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Rose [Rosaceae]
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The whole plant is suffused with a beetroot-red colouring that makes what would otherwise be green leaves look darker and redder. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The flowers are mauve fading to white in the centre, a little like those of Wood Cranesbill. The leaves a dark glaucous colour with beetroot undertones and fine teeth mostly at the far end. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The stems are beetroot red. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers have five somewhat irregular petals. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| And a multitude of stamens bearing cream-coloured pollen. Note the long narrow hairy sepals behind which taper to a point. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Sepals, which are hairy and green, are even longer here. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The hip is beetroot-coloured whilst the sepals of un-opened flowers are long and red. Note new leaves emerging are reddish. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Both beetroot-coloured hips and the red sepals have hairs with a blob on the end. Sepals green and hairy on the inside. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The underside of the leaves is a lighter shade of same. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves pinnate, ending in a triplet, with fine forward-pointing teeth mainly beyond halfway. red stems. |
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| 6th June 2011, Bolsterstone, Nr. Sheffield. | Photo: © RWD |
| The stem barbs are few, straight, long and narrow, and red. Very sharp! |
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This rose is not listed in the BSBI site, so it is not known which, if any, other Roses it will hybridis with. It may, or may not, grow wild. It certainly looked as though it was growing wild, being in a hedrerow on top of the moors beside a track backing onto farmers fields. But as with all tracks, habitation is not far away. The flower, having mauve petals with white centres, is reminiscent of those of Wood Cranesbill. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : Leaves suffused through with a weak beetroot colouring making them a muddy green, or dark glaucous. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
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Rose [Rosaceae]
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