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Book  (2007)  Page(s) pl. 245.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa hemisphaerica. Wild Sulphur Rose: This rose, with pale yellow flowers and greyish leaves, is found mainly in central Anatolia, and particularly in Cappadocia; its flowers in early summer. From Muş, in May 1999.
Book  (2005)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 199.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosaceae (Gülgiller), Rosa hemisphaerica (Sarı yabangülü). 5 petals. to 1.50 m. North-central, north-east, central and south-central Turkey. Steppes, fields, cultivated ground, rocky areas. 800-1800 m. May-June. Perennial woody plant.
Book  (2005)  Page(s) 135.  
 
...R. hemisphaerica... is not a true species, but a garden form derived from R. hemisphaerica var. rapinii, a native of Turkey, Armenia and Iran.
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Rosa hemisphaerica J. Hermann (R. rapinii Boiss. & Bal.) A much branched bush up to 1.5 m, with many strong, curved prickles. Leaflets 5-7(-9), not strongly aromatic, grey green above, glaucescent and finely pubescent beneath, glandular on the rachis. Stipules often toothed. Flowers 4-5 cm across, petals rather pale yellow. Hips orange red. Native of Turkey, Iran, the Kopet Dag, and Soviet Armenia, growing on dry slopes and roadsides from 800 to 1800 m; often cultivated within that range. Rare in cultivation in England, requiring more heat and drought in summer to flower well.
Book  (1981)  Page(s) 254.  
 
R. hemisphaerica var. rapinii (Boiss. & Bal.) Rowley. This is the wild type of R. hemisphaerica, with single flowers. Shrub only 1 m./3.3 ft. high, branches with prickles, sometimes mixed with bristles; leaflets mostly 7, veins beneath velvety puberulent; flowers single, bright yellow, 1-2-3 together; calyx-tube semi-globose, fruit globose, bald, yellow to red, about 1.5 cm./0.6 in. across. 2n= 28. (0R. rapinii Boiss & Bal.). asiatic Turkey to N.W. Persia. Introduced in 1933. Very rare in cultivation and not durable.
Article (magazine)  (Sep 1959)  Page(s) 208.  
 
Rosa hemisphaerica Herrm. var. Rapini (Boissier et Balansa) Rowley Examination of living material and numerous herbarium specimens at Kew convinces me that R. rapini Boissier et Balsana is the single-flowered wild species from which the full-flowered Sulphur Rose sported some time during or before the seventeenth century. By all that is logical this name should stand with hemisphaerica subordinated as a garden variety of it. However, as the epithet hemisphaerica was published earlier (1762) we have no option but to make the species a variety of the garden rose. This topsy-turvy situation, which recurs for Rosa chinensis Jacq., R. Roxburghii Sweet and R. xanthina Lindl. makes a laughing stock of our botanical nomenclature.
Book  (1937)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Rapini Boiss. (hemisphaerica-family) [ploidy] 28
Magazine  (Jun 1913)  Page(s) 229.  
 
Association horticole lyonnaise Procès-verbal de l’Assemblée générale du samedi 17 mai 1913...
EXAMEN DES APPORTS. — Sont déposés sur les tables les produits suivants : — Par M. J. Laperriére, rosiériste à Champagne-au-Mont-d’Or (Rhône) : des tiges fleuries des espèces de Rosiers suivants : .... . Rosa Rapini, espèce peu
connue.
....A M. Laperrière, pour ses Roses, prime de 1re classe
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