Taxon: Rosa ×alba L.

 
Genus: Rosa
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Tribe: Roseae
Nomen number: 32074
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:492. 1753
Link to protologue:
Comments:
  • • [parentage uncertain]
  • • perhaps R. gallica × R. arvensis or R. corymbifera, or R. canina × R. damascena
Typification:
Name Verified on: 15-feb-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2017
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA)
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Common names:

  • white rose  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
  • white-rose-of-York  (Source: Krussmann) - English
  • rosier blanc  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
  • weiße Rose  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
  • rosa blanca  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Cultivated (only cult.)

References:

  1. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  2. Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984 (Krussmann)
  3. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  4. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Rosa ×alba L. :

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=32074. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.