Vaillant’s Sweetbriar
R. rubiginosa variety
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume III (1824)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Rubiginosa Vaillantiana
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME L’Eglantine de Vaillant
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. rubiginosa variety
COMMON NAME Vaillant’s Sweetbriar
OTHER NAMES R. eglanteria variety
CLASS Species
ORIGIN Named after the botanist Sébastien Vaillant who found it, pre 1722, in the environs of Paris, France
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring or summer
SCENT Unknown, but likely foliage scented of apples
GROWTH Forms a bush 2.5 feet high (0.75 metres)
AVAILABILITY Still in cultivation and wild?
At left; picture of Vaillant’s Sweetbriar rose, R. rubiginosa variety, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 164 out of 170, Volume III of Les Roses
