Barberry-Leaved Rose
Hulthemia persica
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume I (1817)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Berberifolia
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier ŕ feuilles d’Epine-vinette
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME Hulthemia persica
COMMON NAME Barberry-Leaved Rose
OTHER NAMES R. persica, Xiao Nei Ye Qiang Wei
CLASS Wild Rose
ORIGIN Iran and Afghanistan, introduced to Europe 1788
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring
SCENT Pleasant spicy fragrance
GROWTH Small shrub; 1-1 ˝ feet tall (0.3-0.5 metres)
AVAILABILITY In cultivation and in wild
At left, the Barberry-Leaved Rose; H. persica, painted by Redouté, portrait 003 out of 170, Volume I of Les Roses.
