'La Belle Sultane' Rose
R. gallica variety
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume III (1824)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Gallica Maheka (flore subsimplici)
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Le Maheka ŕ fleurs simples
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. gallica variety
COMMON NAME La Belle Sultane
OTHER NAMES The Fair Sultana, Near-Single Maheka
CLASS Gallica
ORIGIN Unknown, came to France from Dutch nurseries c. 1794
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring or summer
SCENT Unknown; likely moderately fragrant
GROWTH Unknown; likely a moderately large shrub, 5-8 feet (1.5-2.4 metres)
AVAILABILITY Believed extinct but thought very closed related to the present-day Gallica known by the same name and ‘Violacea’
At left; picture of the rose, La Belle Sultane, R. gallica variety, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 154 out of 170, Volume III of Les Roses
