Rosa foetida
Rosa foetida
Acemsarısı
Dense erect shrub up to 2 m. Prickles rather sparse, sometimes absent on young shoots, 0,5-0,9 cm long, rather coarse, straight to slightly curved, abruptly tapering from a broad base, usually interspersed with acicles and bristles. Leaflets 5-7, elliptic or ovate, 1,2-2,5 x0,8-1,6 cm, obtuse to subacute with rounded to broadly cuneate base, glandular-biserrate almost to the base, glabrous to sparsely hairy above, glandular and hairy, at least on the nerves beneath, dull green on both sides; stipules very narrow with long acute, diverging auricles; scent of 'sweet briar'. Flowers solitary or 2-4 together, ebracteate, sometimes double, with an unpleasant odour. Pedicels 1,5-5,3 cm, glabrescent to hairy. Outer sepals usually pinnatifid or lobed, often much dilated apically, 2-2,5 cm long, glandular or glandular-hispid on the back, patent to ascending or erect in fruit, deciduous at maturity. Petals 2,5-3 x2,5-3,5 cm, emarginate, bright yellow or scarlet with a yellowish reverse. Styles rather long, lanate, stigmahead broad, loose, semiglobose; disc rather narrow, orifice very wide. Hypanthia 0,8-1,1 cm, globose, smooth or hispid, dark brick red. Fl. 4-6. Cultivated for ornament, sometimes as hedges, sometimes naturalized on roadSides, slopes and in fields.
E. Caucasia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkestan. Ir.-Tur. element
