What a wrinkled rose looks like, how to care for it and what useful properties its fruits have

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The wrinkled rose got its name due to the shape of the leaves – they are wrinkled from above and lowered from below. Due to this characteristic feature, the shrub is extremely decorative throughout the warm season, even in the absence of flowers. Well, at the time of flowering or fruiting, it is impossible to take your eyes off the wrinkled rose, which is why it is used with pleasure in landscape design.

Description of the wrinkled rose and its fruits

Wrinkled rose (wrinkled rosehip, rugosa rose) – a wild species from the Far East, East Asia, represents a tall (up to 2 meters), sprawling bush.

The description of a wrinkled rose should begin with its leaves: they are dark green wrinkled, bare above, and pubescent below, very unusual and decorative. The shoots are equipped with numerous spikes of various lengths and thicknesses, reliably protecting the bush.

As can be seen in the photo, the wrinkled rose has large white or purple-red flowers, single or in groups up to 6 cm in diameter, appearing at the ends of the shoots from June and blooming until autumn:

They are bisexual and very fragrant, resistant to all adverse weather phenomena – whether it is raining or windy, hot or temporarily cold. Flowers are laid, both on last year’s and young shoots of the current year, which is why they give such abundant flowering.

The same wealth and wrinkled rose fruits: they are large (up to 2.5 cm in diameter), bright scarlet, fleshy, edible, similar to small paradise apples.

Often on the bush there are flowers and fruits at the same time due to shoots of different ages. The wrinkled wild rose fruits hang until late autumn, representing a valuable find for both birds and people.

Rose wrinkled refers to long-lived stem shrubs.

In the first year, an unbranched shoot 7-12 cm long appears from the seed, with up to 14 leaves. In the second year, the apical bud does not develop, and several lateral branches grow from the upper lateral buds. In addition, 2-3 strong shoots develop from the base of the stem, reaching 20-25 cm, called tillering or replacement shoots.

In the third year, the tillering shoots branch, and below their base, from the root neck, another 4-5 stronger shoots 40-45 cm high develop. They can bloom in the year they appear. In the same year, the development of the rhizome begins from the root collar, which forms root offspring by autumn.

In the fourth year, the root system develops, initially weak and insignificant. Tiller shoots do not form their roots.

Look at the photo: wrinkled rosehip is in a state of constant flowering from June to October:

This happens due to the emergence of new replacement shoots and the death of old ones completely only by the sixth year of life. That is why this shrub is also called a repair rose.

Pruning and propagation of wrinkled roses

Knowledge of the biology of shoot formation helps to properly rejuvenate the bush. Pruning a wrinkled rose involves removing 5-6 year old shoots and removing faded tops. Such care ensures abundant and constant flowering.

Rosa rugosa is a frost-resistant plant that can withstand both severe and intermittent thaws without damage.

In summer, it is heat-resistant, does not require systematic watering. It is also not demanding on the soil, but prefers well-drained, moderately moist, not flooded loams.

When caring for a wrinkled rose, regular top dressing is required for constant flowering at least twice a month, alternating full mineral fertilizers with organic ones.

Rosehip wrinkled, along with dogrose, is most common as rootstocks for cultivated roses.

The disadvantage of it as a stock is the abundance of root shoots, but this has to be neglected due to a powerful root system, a good, comfortable root neck and lagging behind the bark during sap flow. The rootstock is the most promising for high varieties from the remontant group.

Wrinkled roses are propagated by seeds, root offspring and stem cuttings. Stem cuttings are cut in autumn and stored in a box with wet sand at a temperature of +4 .. . + 5°.

Seeds propagate mainly rootstocks. Seeds ripen from late July to October. They are harvested as soon as the fruits begin to color, preventing the shell from hardening strongly. Seeds are sown both in autumn, immediately after harvest, and in spring, after preliminary stratification.

Varieties of wrinkled rose and useful properties of rose hips

In culture, decorative forms with white, pink and red double flowers are known.

The most popular varieties of wrinkled roses:

“Konrad Ferdinand Meyer”.

“Queen of the North”

“New Earth”.

In Holland, a decorative form of this wild rose without shoots and without thorns is currently bred, which indicates the prospect of a rootstock.

I. V. Michurin paid great attention to the wrinkled wild rose in his time.

They created varieties:

“Tea”.

“Bouquet”.

“Dawn of the East”.

“Queen of the North”

“Carnation” with double flowers resembling a carnation.

And semi-double varieties – fragrant and large:

“Doctor Eclair”.

“George Kine”.

The fruits of this rose are a valuable vitamin remedy. Only vitamin C and contains up to 2.7%, as well as carotene, vitamins B, E, P. Also, the beneficial properties of wrinkled rose hips are due to their high content of mineral salts, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium.

They are used both raw – for making jams, confitures, juices, and dry – for tinctures and for medical purposes as a medicine for metabolic diseases, anemia and inflammation.

Delicious jam and jelly are prepared from wrinkled rosehip petals; used to obtain rose oil and fragrant rose water.

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