Stapelia-Flowered Provins Rose
R. gallica variety
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume III (1824)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Gallica Stapeliae flora
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier de Provins ŕ fleurs de Stapelie
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. gallica variety
COMMON NAME Stapelia-Flowered Provins Rose
CLASS Gallica
ORIGIN Unknown; pre 1824
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring or summer
SCENT Slight fragrance likely
GROWTH Smallish shrub, 2.5 feet high (0.75 metres)
AVAILABILITY Extinct?
At left; picture of the Stapelia-Flowered Provins Rose, R. gallica variety, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 142 out of 170, Volume III of Les Roses
