How to tell roses, Chinese roses, and wild roses apart? Three minutes to teach you to give the right flowers on Qixi

Today, the Chinese Valentine's Day has arrived, and many straight men are racking their brains over how to choose a gift for their girlfriends, while girlfriends are also looking forward to today's surprise. Roses are a must-have magic weapon for most couples in love. Today, Qiu Ma will share with everyone how to quickly identify the differences between roses, Chinese roses, and wild roses, so you won't be confused.

1. In a broad sense, Chinese roses, roses, and wild roses all belong to the Rosaceae family, which means they all have wild rose ancestry, and after long-term evolution they developed into different branches, just like cats and tigers are both felines.

2. At present, the known varieties of Chinese roses, roses, and wild roses together already exceed 30,000, making them the category with the richest colors among all flowers~

So how should these three kinds of flowers be distinguished?

The simplest and most straightforward explanation (hey, this is the third knowledge point): abroad, Chinese roses, roses, and wild roses are not specially distinguished, and are all called Rose. When foreigners celebrate Valentine's Day, they all give Chinese roses suitable for cut flowers. True roses have many small thorns, and apart from being fragrant, their flower shape is not attractive, and their vase life is short, known as "one-day scatter." When this kind of Rose spread to China, everyone thought that only cut-flower varieties were called Rose. The English translation of Rose is rose, and moreover, to cater to the market, merchants launched various "roses" named by color (red rose, yellow rose, pink rose... balabala), so in everyone's understanding, good-looking cut-flower Chinese roses are roses, while the ugly ones not suitable for vases are called Chinese roses, and the vine type is called wild rose.

Come, first let's put up a few pictures of how they look when blooming, to get an idea.

(Wild rose)

(Rose)

(Chinese rose)

Is it that in your understanding and in reality,

roses and Chinese roses are exactly the opposite?

It's not your fault, in your impression the teacher never taught this either~

Speaking of this, you should probably infer the conclusion that all the cut-flower "roses" sold in flower shops are Chinese roses~

Do you feel that flower shops passing off Chinese roses as roses is cheating people? Actually, since things like Valentine's Day and flower language all come from the West, and the West does not distinguish Chinese roses from roses, then as long as what you buy is a Rose, it's OK. No (any) need (way) to be too (can) hung up (chat) on it (me)~

Finally, let me popularize one more knowledge point. Friends who like growing Chinese roses may often see or hear about special roses such as rainbow roses and blue enchantress, like this:

Rainbow rose 1

Rainbow rose 2

Blue enchantress

Don't they all look beautiful?

If only you could grow a few yourself, it would be perfect?

Then you buy, buy, buy all over the internet~

But after buying them and they bloom, you find they are all just some small white flowers~

Here, based on personal experience + reading many materials + consulting many professionals, I tell you very responsibly that these flowers are all dyed, and in reality they cannot bloom like this. If you see a plant like this for sale in an online shop, you can mark that shop and never go there again. Fake!

Finally, happy holiday to all the young men and women in love!