Cabbage Rose ‘Bullata’

PICTURE SOURCE Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (1827-33)

ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa centifolia Bullata

ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier ŕ feuilles de Laitue

CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. centifolia ‘Bullata’

COMMON NAME Cabbage Rose ‘Bullata’

OTHER NAMES Bullate Cabbage Rose, Lettuce-leaved Rose

CLASS Centifolia

ORIGIN sport from R.centifolia; bred & named, early 1800s, by M. Dupont

FLOWERING Once-flowering; summer

SCENT Strong, sweet fragrance

GROWTH Tall shrub, more compact than R. centifolia

AVAILABILITY Still in cultivation

At left; picture of the Cabbage Rose, R. centifolia ‘Bullata’, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 06 out of 17, Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (1827-33)

This illustration appears in Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (Redouté's Finest Flowers). The engraving for the print appears to have been based on the same original watercolour painting as the Cabbage Rose variety, R.centifolia ‘Bullata’, published earlier by Redouté in Les Roses. This engraving has two rosebuds and a few leaves less than the one in Les Roses. Other than that it appears identical.

For more information, don’t miss the introduction page; ‘Centifolia – The Old-Fashioned Cabbage Rose'