Cretan Rose (Rosa rubiginosa cretica)
- Subject: Cretan Rose (Rosa rubiginosa cretica)
- From: N* T*
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:24:41 -0500
Title: Cretan Rose (Rosa rubiginosa cretica)
Just a little snippet on this Cretan Rose: The actual "sweet briar," Rosa rubiginosa, does not grow in Crete, though R. glutinosa has been considered a synonym of R. pulverulenta in recent literature on the flora of Crete. I know of one record of R. glutinosa/pulverulenta from a limestone rocky place at 1700 m altitude in the White Mountains in the west of the island, made by the Austrian botanist Karl-Heinz Rechinger in 1942. I've not seen this species myself in Crete. The location in the White Mountains is pretty remote.
Nick
Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
Flora of Crete Supplement:
http://www.marengo.supanet.com/text/fcs.htm
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