Originaria del oeste de China, esta variedad de rosas no solo es una de las más refinadas entre las Rosas especie, con cualidades y colores únicos, sino también un punto de referencia en la historia de las rosas. Fue introducida en cultivo en Europa en 1908. Tanto el rojo intenso de sus flores como sus originales escaramujos dieron impulso y atención al cultivo de las rosas silvestres.
Descripción: es una variedad que adquiere grandes proporciones y solo puede cultivarse en amplios espacios. Cuando prospera, forma un dosel elevado de pequeñas hojas compuestas de 7 a 13 folíolos de color verde oscuro, con un matiz azulado. Sus tallos están cubiertos de aguijones.
Floración: las flores nacen en pequeños ramilletes y son de un intenso rojo sangre, aunque este color no es el más común en su hábitat nativo. Sin embargo, es la tonalidad que define la variedad Rosa moyesii. La forma rosada, más frecuente cuando se propaga por semillas, es conocida en Europa como Rosa moyesii ‘Fargesii’. Aunque sus flores de cinco pétalos destacan por su color, sus escaramujos son probablemente el rasgo más valioso para el reconocimiento de la especie. Ninguna otra presenta escaramujos tan llamativos y de morfología tan inusual: alargados, con forma de jarra, a veces glabros y otras cubiertos de espinillas glandulosas. Florece a mediados de primavera y no repite floración. Esta rosa es muy fértil y altamente atractiva para insectos polinizadores, lo que permite su autopolinización.
Variedades en casa Frey: en el predio de casa Frey, no solo se puede observar la variedad original de flores rojo sangre intenso, sino también alrededor de cuatro variedades más, con diferencias en color, tamaño y estructura de las flores, así como en el color de las hojas. Los tonos van desde el original rojo hasta diversos matices de rosa, desde rosa pálido hasta fucsia. Las hojas varían desde el verde oscuro-azulado hasta verdes más claros.
Texto por Rafael Maino.
"Native to the western part of China, this variety of roses is not only one of the most refined among the species, with unique qualities and colors, but also a reference point in the history of roses. Text by Rafael Maino.
Introduced to cultivation in Europe in 1908, both the intense red of its flowers and its unique and magnificent hips sparked new interest in the cultivation of wild roses.
This variety grows to large proportions and can only be cultivated in large spaces. Where it thrives, it forms a raised canopy of small compound leaves with 7 to 13 leaflets, dark green with a bluish tint. Its stems are covered with thorns.
The flowers grow in small clusters and are an intense blood-red color. This blood-red hue is not common in its native place, but it takes precedence in naming the Rosa moyesii variety. The pink form, sometimes resulting from seed planting, is more common and is known in Europe as Rosa moyesii 'Fargesii'.
Although its five-petaled flowers are of magnificent color, its hips are probably the most valuable feature that earns the species the recognition it deserves, as no other species produces such striking hips with such an unusual elongated jar shape, sometimes smooth and other times covered in glandular spines. It blooms in mid-spring and does not repeat flowering.
In the Frey estate, one can observe not only the original blood-red variety but around four other varieties in different colors, ranging from the original to various shades of pink, from pale pink to fuchsia, also with differences in flower size and structure, as well as leaf color, from the original dark bluish-green to lighter green shades.
Since the Frey-Neumeyer estate, as well as the surrounding region (and the rest of Argentina), has few species of wild roses with which the original R. moyesii could hybridize, based on references about behavior and suggested hybridizations in the Northern Hemisphere (already identified and named: e.g., R. moyesii 'Geranium', R. moyesii 'Fargesii', R. moyesii 'Hillierii', R. moyesii 'Highdownensis', etc.), it can be concluded that the various varieties growing at the Frey estate are the result of spontaneous mutations from seed planting.
R. moyesii is very fertile and highly attractive to pollinating insects, allowing for self-pollination, while cross-pollination is difficult due to the absence of other species that could intervene. Therefore, I will avoid naming the various varieties at the Frey estate with names given in the Northern Hemisphere to similar varieties in color and shape, only recognizing the original R. moyesii blood-red variety as such and naming the others as R. moyesii (var. 1, var. 2, var. 3, var. 4)."" | | | Rosa omeiensis ‘Lutea’ | | Rose | ""This species is supposedly a hybrid between Rosa sericea pteracantha and Rosa xanthina, native to Asia, and found in the wild in northern Burma. It forms large bushes with very wide thorns at the base of the stems, typical of the f. pteracantha form, along with numerous spiny thorns.
Its leaves consist of small, oval leaflets, 7 to 11 in number. The flowers are cup-shaped, pale yellow with a strong fragrance.
This rose is the first to bloom here in Bariloche, from mid to late November, and is very attractive to pollinating insects, producing small, round brown hips. It is highly fertile, and because it flowers so early, there is no other rose variety in bloom to allow for cross-hybridization, so its seeds produce plants identical to the mother plant.
The Frey estate garden is populated by this species, as its seeds have spread throughout the land, producing new plants, with no variants recorded. Text by Rafael Maino.
Text by Rafael Maino.
