All rose-related terms used in this site can be found here. Blade: The broad part of a leaf. Bract: A modified or reduced leaf that occurs beneath and next to a peduncle. Bud Union: The swollen part of the stem where the scion of a grafted rose meets the understock. Calyx: The protective cover of a rose flower, composed o the sepals. Cane: One of the main stems of a rose plant. Climbers: Roses whose long canes can be trained along fences or walls, variable in flower size, form and mature habit. Corolla The petals of a rose flower considered as a single unit. Cultivar: A named rose variety exhibiting distinct and consistent features, indicated by single quotation marks. Floribunda: Medium sized flowers often more compact in habit, medium length stems. Grandiflora: Large flowers borne in clusters usually taller in habit, individual stems within each cluster are suitable or cutting. Hip: The fruit of a rose Inflorescence: the flowering part of a plant; a rose inflorescence may bear single or multiple flowers. Hybrid Tea: Large flowers generally borne one per stem, medium to tall in habit, long cutting stems. Leaflet: The individual segment of a compound rose leaf. Miniatures: Small flowered roses with proportionately smaller foliage,often very compact in habit, stems are also shorter but still suitable for cutting. Node: The point on a stem from which leaves and buds emerge. Old Rose: Strictly speaking, a rose introduced before 1867, but more loosely used to describe any rose grown or introduced before 1900 Once-blooming: a rose that flowers only once in early summer and does not repeat. Own-root: A rose propagated as a cutting rather than by grafting. Peduncle: A stalk that supports a single flower or flower cluster Petal: the showy, usually colored part of a flower. Petiole: The stalk by which a leaf attaches to a stem; also leafstalk. Pistil: The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, style, and stigma. Polyanthas: Small flowers borne in very large clusters, usually compact in habit, medium-short stems. Prickle: The technical term for a rose thorn. Root-stock: The root portion of a plant onto which the scion is grafted; also understock Rugosas: Species or near-species roses valued for their hardiness old fashioned flowers and fountainous habits. Many are available on their own roots. Scion: A shoot grafted onto a rootstock; the "top" of a grafted rose. Sepal: One of the five individual, leaflike divisions of the calyx. Shrubs: Free blooming plants with differing flower sizes and forms, broadly varying in mature size but of full bushy attractive habit,usually good disease resistance and hardiness. Shrublets™: Roses of varying habits which are never too big to tuck into restricted garden spaces. Sport: A spontaneous genetic mutation, often resulting in a plant that bears flowers of a different color or with more or fewer petals than the original plant. Stamen: The male reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of a filament and anther. Stipule: A small, leaflike appendage that occurs at the base of the petiole. Sucker: A stem, usually unwanted, that originates from a rootstock
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