Exterior: flowers solitary in leaf axils or several clusters, bracts ovate, pedicels 5-25 mm long densely tomentose and glandular hairs, flowers 4-5.5 cm in diameter, corolla bright, purplish-red, fragrant. Rosehips compressed globose, red when ripe, with numerous small achenes, sepals persistent.

Characteristics: Flowers solitary or 3-6 clustered, 6-8 cm in diameter, fragrant, densely covered with velvet and prickly hairs, petals purplish-red or white, single or double. Rosette fruit compressed globose, red, sepals persistent. Flowering in May-September, fruiting in September-October.

Functions: made into dried flowers, making desserts, cooking porridge, making beverages, traditional Chinese medicine raw materials, skin care, and so on.

Expanded Information

Rose health:

Every year in May and June when the rose is in bloom, pick the rose buds, and dry them over a slight fire. Rose petals with boiling water, drink instead of tea, fresh rose flowers pounded into juice, and icing sugar stewed together, taking can moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

Rose skin care:

Rose essential oil is used for whitening massage, pregnant women are contraindicated.

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