What is the difference between roses and wild roses? Learn the quick way to tell them apart

Rosa is the collective name for some species under the genus Rosa in botany, most of which are world-famous ornamental plants, with Chinese roses, roses and wild roses as their representative plants. Roses and wild roses are sister flowers of the same genus Rosa in the family Rosaceae, and their forms are very similar, making them very easy to confuse. Let us take a look below at what differences there are between roses and wild roses!

The difference between rose and wild rose stems

1. Rose: The rose is an upright shrub, up to 2 m tall, with thick, black clustered stems, densely tomentose branchlets, and needles and glandular hairs, with upright or curved, pale yellow prickles, and the prickles are covered with tomentum.

2. Wild rose: The wild rose is a climbing shrub, with cylindrical branchlets, usually hairless, with short, thick, slightly curved skin strips, and the stem prickles are relatively large and generally hooked, with roughly 3 to 4 per node.

The difference between rose and wild rose leaves

1. Rose: Rose leaflets number 5 to 9, 5 to 13 cm long including the petiole, with sunken veins and wrinkles, grayish green underneath, a raised midrib, obvious reticulate veins, densely covered with tomentum and glandular hairs, sometimes the glandular hairs are not obvious.

2. Wild rose: Wild rose leaflets are also 5 to 9, sometimes 3 on leaflets near the inflorescence, 5 to 10 cm long including the petiole, hairless above, with soft hairs below, the petiolules and leaf rachis have soft hairs or are hairless, with scattered glandular hairs, stipules pectinate, mostly adnate to the petiole, with or without glandular hairs on the margin.

The difference between rose and wild rose flowers

1. Rose: Rose flowers are solitary or in clusters of 1 to 3, in a paniculate corymb borne at the top of the branches, with a short flower stalk, flower diameter about 3 cm, and it also blooms only once a year in summer, but the fragrance of rose flowers is much stronger than that of wild roses, and the sepals do not fall off after the flowers fade.

2. Wild rose: Wild rose flowers are often in clusters of 6 to 7, in a paniculate corymb borne at the top of the branches, flower diameter about 3 cm, blooming only once each year, and the sepals fall off after the flowers fade.

The difference between rose and wild rose fruit

1. Rose: The rose fruit is oblate, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, brick red, fleshy, and smooth.

2. Wild rose: The wild rose fruit is nearly spherical, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, reddish brown or purplish brown, glossy, and hairless.