How does the Rosa rubus propagate? Mainly by cuttings
The Rosa rubus is a fairly common ornamental flowering plant in people's lives, and many people grow it in various parts of China. As more people grow it, questions about its propagation have also become a concern. How does the Rosa rubus propagate? What are the propagation methods of the Rosa rubus? Below, the editor will walk you through it.
1. How does the Rosa rubus propagate, cuttings/layering
When it comes to how the Rosa rubus propagates, it is mainly divided into two methods: cutting propagation and layering propagation. Among them, cutting propagation is the more commonly used one. Although layering propagation is used relatively less, its survival rate is by no means low. Below are the specific operation methods for the two propagation methods. Let's take a look.
2. Propagation methods of the Rosa rubus
Cutting propagation
1. Substrate selection, humus soil
Before propagating the Rosa rubus, we first need to choose a substrate. This is the step of laying a solid foundation, so we must choose the most suitable one. Generally, it is best to choose loose and fertile humus soil as the substrate. This kind of soil has good drainage and air permeability, allows the plant to absorb nutrients better, and is not prone to water accumulation.
2. Substrate disinfection, high-temperature disinfection
After choosing the substrate, we also need to disinfect it to prevent bacteria in it from infecting the Rosa rubus. There are two disinfection methods. One is that we can break it up and spread it flat under strong sunlight to bake it, and we can also put it into a pot and stir-fry it over high heat. In this way, even if there are pests and diseases in it, they will be killed by the high temperature.
3. Cutting selection, choose robust-growing branches
After choosing the substrate, we also need to choose the cuttings. Generally, it is best to choose branches that are relatively robust and free from pest and disease infestation as cuttings, so the survival rate will be higher. If we choose branches that already look frail, then it is basically very difficult for them to survive, so everyone should not be too casual when choosing.
4. Cutting method, remove the bottom leaves
Among the propagation methods of the Rosa rubus, cutting propagation is considered a relatively simple one. Before cutting, we can use chopsticks to poke a hole in the substrate, then trim off the leaves at the bottom of the cutting, and after that insert the cutting halfway. This operation can avoid damage to the cutting and is very practical. Afterward, water it thoroughly and place it in a shady place for a week, and then it can be grown in sunlight all the time.
Layering propagation
When layering the Rosa rubus, we should choose a robust-growing long branch, then bend it and bury it in the soil, or use serpentine layering. After it takes root, separate it from the mother plant. This method is generally best carried out in spring and autumn, because the climate is more suitable for its growth, so the survival rate will be somewhat higher.
[Rosa rubus pictures] What is the flower language of the Rosa rubus?
Content summary: The Rosa rubus is a plant in the Rosaceae family, also known as Rubus rosifolius, with green stems and roots. It belongs to the evergreen small shrub species and grows with pinnate compound leaves. Its main functions are ornamental and medicinal. What this article will bring you today is pictures of the Rosa rubus and a complete guide to its flower language.
[The meaning of the Rosa rubus flower language]
▍Plant introduction
The Rosa rubus mostly blooms in early summer. It belongs to a solitary-flowered variety. The flowers are somewhat large, snowy white, with yellow stamens, fragrant, and easily wither.
The Rosa rubus belongs to a single-petaled variety. Its flowers are fragrant and its color is delicate, with good form. It mainly propagates through underground stems and has strong ornamental value. It belongs to a low shrub variety and is suitable for planting in gardens or indoors.
▍Meaning of the flower language
The flower language of the Rosa rubus is: the beauty of the end of the road
According to legend, the Rosa rubus represents that a woman's youth has passed, or that a relationship has ended. The most important and most unforgettable love in life will disappear. It represents beauty and death, so it is also called the flower of death.
The Rosa rubus is also called a sentimental flower. Nowadays, the Rosa rubus also carries the meaning of ending. The most commonly used phrase is "the time of Rosa rubus," meaning that one's final beauty is about to disappear and life has reached its end.
[A complete collection of Rosa rubus pictures]
▍Flowering period
The Rosa rubus has a flowering period from April to May and a fruiting period from September to October. Its floral fragrance is rich, and after autumn arrives, the Rosa rubus will wither.
Some people say that the Rosa rubus is the last flower to bloom in summer. Once the Rosa rubus withers, it means autumn has arrived. An ancient poem mentions, "The Rosa rubus does not contend for spring, blooming lonely at the latest."
▍Growth habits
The Rosa rubus is a sun-loving variety and mostly grows in mid-altitude areas. It can adapt to an altitude of about 500-1300 m.
The Rosa rubus likes shade. Its places of origin are Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other provinces and cities. It is mostly wild and often grows among trees and on hillsides. It is suitable for slightly acidic soil. Its fruit color is red, mostly axillary beneath small branches, covered with white fine hairs.
▍Main uses
The Rosa rubus can be used for potted cultivation and become an indoor decorative plant. It can also be planted in a backyard to make a garden, or directly planted on grass for ornamental purposes.
Secondly, the fruit of the Rosa rubus can be eaten directly raw, or processed into alcoholic drinks, used for soaking medicinal liquor, and can be drunk directly. It can also be used to treat bruises and injuries, and can be applied externally directly. The root bark of the Rosa rubus contains tannins, from which lacquer components can be extracted. The Rosa rubus is also rich in nectar sources, and can also be used to make aromatic oil or to make fragrant balm.
Summary: The Rosa rubus is not very common in China, and it is rarely grown indoors. The most commonly used cultivation methods for the Rosa rubus are mainly layering and cuttings. What the above text mainly brings you is a complete collection of Rosa rubus pictures and the meaning of the Rosa rubus flower language. After reading the above, do you already have some understanding of the Rosa rubus?
What is the flower language of the Rosa rubus? Cultivation methods of the Rosa rubus
Rosa rubus (scientific name: Rosa rubus H. Lév. & Vaniot), also known as Tummi and Rubus rosifolius. In Buddhist terminology, the Rosa rubus is the flower of the other shore, the last flower to bloom in the flowering season. Below, let's take a look with the editor at what the flower language of the Rosa rubus is, the cultivation methods of the Rosa rubus, and related knowledge.
What is the flower language of the Rosa rubus
The flower language of the Rosa rubus is "the beauty of the end of the road." Although it cannot compare in beauty with the hundred flowers, it can stand alone in elegance. So proud, and yet so delicate.
The blooming of the Rosa rubus indicates the end of a relationship
Loving to the point of Rosa rubus means that the most brilliant, most flourishing, or most unforgettable love in life is about to be lost
What remains after prosperity may be a scene of decay, or perhaps a return to plainness
The final beauty is always deeply moving
The loneliness of the Rosa rubus, among all flowers
is the most enduring, the deepest, and also the most unique
In Buddhist terminology, the Rosa rubus is the last flower to bloom in the flowering season
When the Rosa rubus blooms, the flower season is over, leaving only the flower of the other shore blooming in forgotten past lives.
The Rosa rubus always blooms in summer when the other flowers are almost withered. So when the Rosa rubus has finished blooming, the entire flowering season has also passed, which is why people now often say, "When the Rosa rubus blooms, the flower season is over."
Introduction to the Rosa rubus
Rosa rubus (scientific name: Rosa rubus H. Lév. & Vaniot), also known as Tummi and Rubus rosifolius. A deciduous or semi-evergreen climbing shrub. Branchlets are armed with hooked prickles. Pinnate compound leaves, with 5-7 leaflets, ovate-elliptic or obovate, abaxially pubescent, stipules adnate to the petiole, entire. Corymbose inflorescence. Flowers white, fragrant. Fruit subglobose, dark red. Flowering period April-May, fruit ripening period September-October.
The Rosa rubus has dense branch tips, abundant flowers and strong fragrance, and the fruit turns red after autumn. It is suitable for hedges and can also be planted alone at the edge of grass. The fruit can be eaten raw or processed for brewing wine. The root contains tannins, from which tannin extract can be obtained. The flowers are a very good nectar source and can also be used to extract essential oil. It grows in areas from 250 m to 2200 m above sea level, often in mountain thickets, among grasses, in mixed woods, beside streams, on hillside roadsides, in shady places, and at forest edges. It is drought-tolerant and afraid of waterlogging.
The Rosa rubus is produced in the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, China, as well as in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces and regions. The Rosa rubus is the last flower to bloom in spring. When it opens, it means spring has ended. "The Rosa rubus does not contend for spring, blooming lonely at the latest." In "A Dream of Red Mansions" there is a saying: When the Rosa rubus blooms, the flower season is over -- after the Rosa rubus, spring is no more.
1. Morphological characteristics
Branches: The Rosa rubus is a creeping shrub, up to 5-6 m tall; branchlets cylindrical, usually pubescent, denser when young, falling off when old; prickles short, stout, curved.
Leaves: The leaflets of the Rosa rubus are usually 5, occasionally 3 near the inflorescence, 8-15 cm long including the petiole; leaflets ovate-elliptic, obovate, or rounded, 3-6(-9) cm long, 2-4.5 cm wide, apex caudate-acuminate, acute, or gradually acuminate, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, margin with sharp serrations, shallower and sparser toward the base, adaxially dark green, usually glabrous or occasionally pubescent, abaxially densely pubescent or sparsely pubescent; petiolules and leaf rachis pubescent and with scattered small groove-like prickles; stipules mostly adnate to the petiole, the free part lanceolate, apex gradually acuminate, entire, often glandular, hairy.
Flowers: The Rosa rubus has 10-25 flowers arranged in a paniculate corymbose inflorescence; pedicels 1.5-2 cm long, the common peduncle and pedicels all pubescent and sparsely glandular-hairy, flowers 2.5-3 cm in diameter; hypanthium globose to obovoid, externally pubescent and glandular-hairy; sepals lanceolate, apex long acuminate, usually entire, both surfaces densely pubescent; petals white, obovate, apex slightly concave, base broadly cuneate, styles united into a column, slightly longer than stamens, externally pubescent. The flowering period of the Rosa rubus is April-June.
Fruit: The fruit of the Rosa rubus is subglobose, 8-10 mm in diameter, scarlet to purplish brown, glossy. After flowering, the sepals are reflexed and later fall off. The fruiting period of the Rosa rubus is July-September.
2. Ecological habits
The Rosa rubus likes warmth and sunlight. It mostly grows on hillsides, roadsides, grassy slopes, or in thickets at an altitude of 500-1300 m. It is drought-tolerant and afraid of waterlogging. The Rosa rubus has dense branch tips, abundant flowers and strong fragrance, and the fruit turns red after autumn.
Cultivation techniques of the Rosa rubus
1. Propagation
Use layering or cuttings for propagation. Cultivating the Rosa rubus has many similarities with growing other roses and Chinese roses, but it is more extensively managed than Chinese roses. The planting spacing should not be less than 2 m. From the beginning of sprouting in early spring until flowering, water 3-4 times as appropriate according to weather conditions to keep the soil moist. If it suffers drought at this time, the number of flowers will be greatly reduced. During summer drought, water another 2-3 times. In the rainy season, pay attention to timely drainage and waterlogging prevention. Because roses are afraid of waterlogging, waterlogging easily causes root rot. In autumn, water another 2-3 times as appropriate. When watering throughout the year, be careful not to let water accumulate at the plant roots. During the bud stage, apply 1-2 times of thin cake fertilizer water, and the flower color will be good and the flowering period lasting.
2. Pruning
Pruning is an indispensable and important process in shaping the Rosa rubus landscape. Poor pruning will result in a clump of thorns, uneven and irregular, not only with many pests and diseases, but also unattractive in appearance. Generally, mature plants are pruned once each year before spring growth begins. The amount of pruning should be moderate. Generally, the main branch (main vine) can be retained to a length within 1.5 m, and the rest can be cut off. Each lateral branch can retain 3-5 buds at the base. At the same time, remove dead branches, thin and weak branches, and pest- and disease-affected branches, and cut off overly old and overly dense branches to promote the sprouting of new branches and constantly renew the old plant, so that it can bloom abundantly year after year.
Cultural background of the Rosa rubus
1. Botanical history
On page 450 of Chen Rong's "Chinese Tree Taxonomy," Rosa rubus H. Lév. & Vaniot, the Chinese name of this species is "Rosa rubus," quoted from the book "Huajing." Checking the original book, there are textual records and illustrations. The text says the Rosa rubus is also called "Buddha's smile," and also has several names such as Dubuqing, Baiyizhi, and Xuemeidun. "Climbing and thorny, with green leaves and bluish stems, it becomes lush when supported on a trellis. There are three kinds of flowers: large double-petaled, white and fragrant, each flower bearing three leaves like the character 'pin.' Green calyx with red sepals, and when fully open, pure white. There is also a honey-colored kind, inferior to the yellow rose, with many thorns on the branches and fragrant. The Rosa rubus is a woody plant in the Rosaceae family.
2. Buddhist allusions
The cluster fig is mentioned in many Buddhist works, but it is not the "flower of the other shore" (that is, Lycoris radiata). Buddhist scriptures also say it is a flower that blooms in heaven, white and soft. Those who see this flower have their evil removed. It is an auspicious sign sent from heaven, but this auspiciousness is not necessarily a good thing for people in the mortal world. Just like the flower of the other shore, the flower blooms on the other shore; when the flower blooms, no leaves can be seen, and when there are leaves, no flower can be seen. Flower and leaf never meet, missing each other generation after generation. In such cases, a cluster fig and a flower of the other shore are both signs of separation. Without that incomparable transcendence, even if one claims to be free of emotion, one cannot help but shed tears for her. Although in the deepest part of one's wishes, one does not hope for your cluster fig, does not hope to see the sorrowful flower of the other shore, one still prays that through your hands, she may sprout and bloom.
3. Classic textual notes
"Huajing": There are three kinds of Rosa rubus flowers. The large double-petaled kind is white and fragrant, each flower bearing three leaves like the character "pin." Green calyx with red sepals, and when fully open, pure white. There is a honey-colored kind, inferior to the yellow rose, with many thorns on the branches and fragrant. There is also a red one, commonly called foreign Rosa rubus, which is also not fragrant.
Chao Wujiu even said that Tummi should replace the peony as the king of flowers. Reading Yuan Zhonglang's "Flower Misfortune," there is the line "Tummi is suitable for sinking in water," but the details are unknown. The annotation says: Tummi, also written as Rosa rubus, Tumimi, etc., is a deciduous small shrub in the Rosaceae family. It indeed blooms in late spring and is fragrant.
In the Qing Dynasty, Chu Rendi's "Jianhu Xu Ji" contains a piece called "Tummi Dew," saying that Tummi dew is produced in the countries along the Atlantic coast. Dew condenses on the Tummi flowers, "like fine jade, glistening and fragrant, like sweet dew. Foreign women use it to moisten their bodies and smooth their hair, and the fragrance does not fade for a month." "Foreigners" collect the dew from these flowers, put it in bottles, and sell it far away to other places.
"Qing Yi Lu": "The Rosa rubus is called White Climbing Gentleman because it bears white flowers."
Mao Pang's "Nan Ge Zi - Matching Rhymes at a Banquet for Li Shiwen, Prefect of Qu" says: "Green shade hides the city, clear fragrance fills the wine cup, thin mist and sparse rain chill the dusk. Falling Rosa rubus petals damage the traces of spring. Moisture enters the sheng and xiao, sleek and rich; after spring, laughter and words are warm. Deeper into the night, the gate of the drunkard's land is not locked. First send the song to keep the cloud that wishes to return."
In the chapter "A Night Banquet for the Flowers at Happy Red Court" in "A Dream of Red Mansions," Cao Xueqin uses the technique of using flowers to represent people to hint at the fates of several characters, among them the Rosa rubus. The maid Sheyue draws a flower lot, which is "Rosa rubus -- the prime of youth at its peak." "The prime of youth at its peak" means that the flowering affair has reached its end, and afterward naturally the many flowers wither, carrying the meaning of conclusion; the Rosa rubus blooms at the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and after it withers, it indicates the end of the flowering season, so it has the meaning of conclusion.
4. Related poetic lines
1. "Book of Songs - Bin Feng - Chi Xiao": My hands are busy and weary, I gather the tu. "Tu" refers to Miscanthus, the flower of a plant similar to reeds.
2. Lu You: In Wu, spring cold delays the flowers, and on the way north I pick fragrance all along.
3. Yang Wanli: Taking wine as a name yet slandering him, ice as flesh and bones, the moon as home.
4. Wu Shuji's lyric: The Rosa rubus has faded and spring is over. Not many petals remain, dotted on the branch tips.
5. Zhu Shuzhen, "Partridge in the Sky": Still wishing to get drunk with spring for a thousand cups, fortunately there are the Rosa rubus and the crabapple.
6. Zhao Mengjian, "Thinking of Home While Away": Where the breeze passes there is a clear fragrance; I know it is the Rosa rubus beyond the low wall.
7. Fang Yue, "Rosa rubus": It is not that the weather is entirely unreliable; one should protect the Rosa rubus to follow the peony.
8. Chen Pu, "Harmonizing with the Rosa rubus": Frost and snow are kneaded and cut into shape, worthy of a glass purple jade cup. In the midst of bustling bloom one misses the chance to admire and enjoy; in hurried falling, one vainly lingers. Bewildered in the butterfly dream, lingering in the snail kingdom; time slips by as the dragon pearl enters the mussel womb. Quickly make a soul-summoning song and pour the osmanthus wine; there still remains half a face on the green moss.
9. Wang Qi, "Spring Evening Stroll in the Small Garden": A cluster of plum blossoms fades its lingering makeup; fresh red is applied to the crabapple. When the Rosa rubus blooms, the flower season is over; thread by thread, the tender jujube emerges from the mossy wall.
10. Qing Dynasty poet Li E: Casually take off spring clothes to wash away the red of wine; in Jiangnan in the second month there is the most wind. After pear blossoms like snow comes Tummi snow; a person is in a shallow dream behind layered windows.
11. Li Qi's "Qing Yu An": On returning, keep the imperial fragrance on collar and sleeves, and together drink Tummi wine
12. Ouyang Xiu's "Yu Jia Ao": Just when the peonies are about to bloom everywhere, the Tummi presses the trellis and its clear fragrance disperses. Beneath the flowers, who can persuade one to drink a cup? Increasing attachment, the east wind turns late with merciless entanglement
13. Song Boren, "Two Poems on Late Spring": Wind over the brickwork, fallen flowers red all over the ground; farewell cups and dishes in a hurried haste. Spring light is not yet willing to withdraw its heart and go, but remains in the slender shadows of the Rosa rubus.
14. Nalan Xingde, "Jiu Quan Zi - Farewell to the Rosa rubus": Farewell to the Rosa rubus, a stretch of moonlight like water.