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Flowers may be followed by showy red or purple fruits in some varieties.

Peonie. Very large shrub 5ft 150cm 6ft 180cm bloom size. Very vigorous and plentiful foliage. Gallica complicata was introduced by jules gravereaux france 1902.

We divided the rootballs of some of my moms plants 2 years ago. In the bulletin of historic roses group dr aidan daniel and peter harkness 1993 it is consider that the fold in the center of the petals might be the. The large fragrant flowers are followed by big showy hips that cry out to be made into rosehip jelly.

Complicata is an old rose of unknown origin that dates from before the 19th century. It is very robust reliable and free flowering and may even be grown as a climber. The rosa complicata name embellished with such a delicious and simple rose with its 5 petals of a brilliant magenta rose with vigorous growth has really given rise to numerous theories.

Gallica roses were enjoyed by the persians way back in the 12th century bc. Rosa complicata is thought to be a gallica rosa canina cross. 7 x 6 21m x 18m rose colour.

They were a little slow starting but this year2004 they have really taken off growth and bloom wise. This rose which is probably a caninagallica hybrid has flowers about five inches across of the most brilliant pure rose pink with a large boss of stamens. This suggests that rosa complicata was supplied by the nursery otto froebel to jules gravereaux for his rosarium lhay around 1900 and is indeed a species cross.

It is a strong grower in the garden that blooms once per season for an extended period up to six weeks. In mid june the whole plant is covered with a mass of blooms. They were faated in france by napoleons josephine.

Little or no fragrance gallica large arching branches which bear flat single flowers of bright pink and gold stamens all along their length in mid june. Rosa gallica complicata is a hybrid gallica that bears clear pink single form roses in spring. Complicata shrub rose features.

Large single flowers about 5 across of brilliant bright pink. Other common names rose complicata synonyms rosa gallica complicata family rosaceae genus rosa can be deciduous or semi evergreen shrubs or scrambling climbers with usually thorny stems bearing compound pinnate leaves and solitary or clustered flowers.