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Questions and Answers: 2014

Question: Thank you for your answers! This is another picture of the Rosa, but I'm not sure if it will help …

  • Question

    Thank you for your answers! This is another picture of the Rosa, but I'm not sure if it will help identifying the species. Might be Rosa Luciae? Could you give me some hints what to look for in order to tell the differences of the Rosa genus? Also, could you help identify the plant showed in image 2 and 3 (taken at the same location on the same day), which is the upper part and the lower part of one plant? Tried the keys but no results. Thanks.

    Answer

    Dear ruih, in order to identify the species of Rosa, I need images of the stipules, close-ups of the leaves, better resolution images of the flowers so I can see details such as style position relative to the opening into the hypanthium, and so on. Habit images (such as those that you are taking) are useful, but don't provide the details needed for this difficult genus. The plant with yellow flowers is Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein). Best wishes.