Rosa sempervirens
Rosa sempervirens
İtburnu
Shrub with long scrambling stems, 5-10 m long. Prickles sparse, ± uniform, usually curved, gradually tapering from a rather broad base, c. 0,5 cm long. Leaves evergreen; leaflets 5, coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate, 1,5-5,5 x 1-2,5 cm, acute to acuminate with rounded or cuneate base, usually simply serrate, teeth very short, numerous, 19-30 on each side, glabrous on both surfaces, shining, vivid green; rachis prickly; stipules narrow with short diverging auricles. Flowers occasionally solitary, usually 3-10 in loose corymbs; bracts rather short, deciduous, usually entire and glabrescent. Pedicels 2-7 cm, glandular-hispid. Sepals ovate, 0,8-1,5 cm, abruptly tapering into a rather short point, usually entire, glandular on the back, patent to deflexed in fruit, soon deciduous. Petals 1-2 x 1-1,5 cm, white. Buds broadly ovoid and blunt. Styles usually hairy, connate into a long column, up to 0,5 cm; disc flat to slightly conical, rather broad with a narrow orifice. Hypanthia globose to broadly ovoid, 0,8-1,5 cm, with sparse stalked glands, red to orange-red. Fl. 6. Dunes, slopes and scrub, at low elevations up to c. 500 m.
S. Europe, N.W. Africa. Medit. element.
