Redouté’s Rose with Glaucous Leaves
R. glauca x pimpinellifolia
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume I (1817)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Redutea glauca
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier Redouté ŕ feuilles glauques
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. glauca x pimpinellifolia
COMMON NAME Redouté’s Rose with Glaucous Leaves
OTHER NAMES Pompon Rose, Common Pompon, De Champagne, May Pompon
CLASS Species (hybrid)
ORIGIN Unknown
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring/summer
SCENT Slight fragrance
GROWTH Shrub to 3 feet (0.9 metres)
AVAILABILITY Thought extinct, but rediscovered in Ireland
At left; picture of Redouté’s Rose with Glaucous Leaves, R. glauca x pimpinellifolia, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 039 out of 170, Volume I of Les Roses.
