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Rosaceae
Memorial Rose
Rosa wichuraiana
Remembrance and eternal love.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Rosa
- Native to
- Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Type
- vine
- Height
- trailing to 20 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- well-drained, average to poor
- Water
- low to moderate
- Hardiness
- 5-9
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- It earned the name 'memorial rose' because it was widely planted on graves and in cemeteries in the late 1800s.
- The glossy, semi-evergreen leaves stay green well into winter, providing year-round ground coverage.
- It is a parent species of many famous climbing and rambling rose cultivars, including 'Dorothy Perkins' and 'New Dawn.'
- The small, single white flowers have a fresh, green-apple fragrance and appear in clusters of six to ten.
- Named after Max Ernst Wichura, a Prussian botanist who collected the species in Japan in 1861 but died before his specimens were formally described.
Color meanings
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remembrance
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eternal love
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enduring memory
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reverence