Single-Flowered Cabbage Rose
R. centifolia variety
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume I (1817)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Centifolia simplex
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier Centfeuilles à fleurs simples
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. centifolia variety
COMMON NAME Single-Flowered Cabbage Rose
CLASS Centifolia
ORIGIN Unknown: First records; bred from seed by M. Dupont
FLOWERING Once-flowering; summer
SCENT Strong, sweet fragrance
GROWTH Tall shrub
AVAILABILITY Probably extinct
For more information, don’t miss the introduction page; ‘Centifolia – The Old-Fashioned Cabbage Rose'
At left; picture of the Cabbage Rose, R. centifolia variety, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 027 out of 170, Volume I of Les Roses.
Redouté & Thory describe this rose as identical to R. centifolia in all ways, except that its flowers are single, having only five petals and its stems are a little less prickly.
Redouté made his original drawing from the ‘only stock now existing, probably in France.’ He found it at the nursery of M. Noisette. It was believed to have been raised from seed by M. Dupont prior to his nursery closing down.
