Flowers are very beautiful and thus are commonly used to decorate spaces in our house or in our office.
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35 facts about roses!
Roses are flowers that look very beautiful.
- A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa
- It belongs to the family Rosaceae.
- There are over three hundred species and thousands of cultivars.
- The world’s oldest living rose is believed to be 1,000 years old.
- It grows on the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany.
- Its presence is documented since 815 B.C.
- The world’s most expensive rose is a 2006 variety by famed rose breeder David Austin that was christened Juliet.
- Breeding the rose took a total 15 years and cost 5 million dollars.
- Juliet is now considered the world’s most expensive rose cultivar.
- There are no black roses.
- In fact, black roses are… dark red!
- For instance, the Black Rose of Turkey”, is a breed that appears pitch-black to the eye, but it actually has a dark reddish-crimson color.
- The tallest ever recorded rose bush stands at over 7 meters tall.
- The rose also grows into a fruit.
- The fruit is called a Rose Hip.
- This fruit is really good for your health, since its full of Vitamin C.
- Ancient Romans used roses as room decorations.
- Sometimes they wore the roses as a necklace.
- It was also believed in Roman circles that anything said “under the rose” was deemed to be top secret.
- There are rose fossils discovered that date back 35 million years.
- Back in 2002 a miniature rose, named “Overnight Scentsation”, was taken to space to assist in studies that aimed to show effects of low gravity on the smell of roses.
- Cavriglia in Italy is the largest private rose garden in the world.
- It has over 7,500 different varieties of roses.
- The rose is one of the only three flowers mentioned in the Bible, along with lilies and camphire.
- Since ancient days, the rose has been known as the ultimate symbol of love.
- It is often given as a gift to significant others.
- The rose is also associated with sympathy or sorrow.
- The name “Rose” is often used as a girl’s name in English speaking countries.
- The famous Cleopatra of Egypt was believed to have covered the floor of her palace room with roses before Mark Antony visited her.
- Rose is considered England’s national flower!
- It is also the official flower of four states including the state of New York, Iowa, North Dakota and Georgia.
- In 1986 rose became the emblem of the U.S.A.
- Large herbivores, insects, and spiders often attack roses.
- Wild roses bloom once per year.
- You can extract rose oil from the roses.