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Rosa villosa (apple rose)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Rosa villosa, the apple rose, is a species of rose. It was described in 1753. It is also known as the "spansk hyben-rose".
View Wikipedia Record: Rosa villosa

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  There is a layer of hairs around the seeds just beneath the flesh of the fruit. These hairs can cause irritation to the mouth and digestive tract if ingested.
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera, Bats
Scent [1]  The foliage has an aroma like ripe apples;
Structure [1]  Shrub
Height [1]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
View Plants For A Future Record : Rosa villosa

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve National Park II 218515 Belarus
Galichia Gora Zapovednik Ia 568 Lipetsk, Russia
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 692723 Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia
Khopersky Zapovednik Ia 47103 Russia  
Vallées de la Warche et du Bayehon en aval du barrage de Robertville (Malmedy; Waimes) 1140 Belgium  

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0