Lutea Maxima

PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume III (1824)

ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Eglanteria Luteola

ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME L’Eglantier Serin

CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. pimpinellifolia ‘Lutea Maxima’

COMMON NAME Lutea Maxima

OTHER NAMES R. pimpinellifolia ‘Lutea’ (Scotch Rose), Canary Yellow Rose

CLASS Species (hybrid)

ORIGIN Unknown, possibly hybrid (R. pimpinellifolia x foetida). Grown throughout Europe pre 1824

FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring or summer

SCENT Heavy, but less so than R. foetida

GROWTH Branching shrub to 3 feet (0.9 metres) high

AVAILABILITY Still in cultivation

At left; picture of the rose, Lutea Maxima R. pimpinellifolia ‘Lutea Maxima’, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 124 out of 170, Volume III of Les Roses