Rosa sp.  

Praky shinides Leaves compound, imparpinic.Florre- Stancrs Runnerous Carpetis Molta @rein comb. cohn
becoming fleshy and coloured at maturity enclosing the -seeded achenes; often edible.
hispanitium, tree. Loviled each with a separale she { secaed achenes, ohen caible. a column. Hypeanthun walt,
It includes c. 100 species and a very large number of hybrids and culivars. Of these only one wild rose is found in
Saudi Arabia. Rosa damascena Miller, the Jury Rose (5157 -13) is the common pertumed rose cultivated for is
ornamental value and the perfume.
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Rosa abyssinica Lindley, Ros. Monogr. 116, t. 13 (1820). Plate 307, C.
= Rosa moschata Herrm. var. abyssinica (Lindley) Crepin (1889); Rosa schweinfurthii Boulenger (1933).
ArabIc Names
Abaal; Al-Tathi;, Wardh -Is - (ul) - Le
A scrambing shrub. Branches reddish, armed with recurved prickles; some smaller prickles also present on petiole and
rachis. Leaves mostly glabrous, with adnate stipules fringed with glands; compound, up to 7-foliate; leaflets elliptical
to broadly ovate-lanceolate, up to- 28 (-45) mm X 16 mm, crenate-serrate, acute. Flowers white, c. 25 mm across,
usually in several - to many-flowered terminal corymbs. Sepals tapering lanceolate, up to c. 18 mm long, including the
long cuspidate tip; fringed with stipitate glands; glabrous glandular on the outside, densely hairy on the inner face.
Petals up to c. 12 (-26) mm long. Styles connate into a hairy stylar column. Hypanthium orange-red to red at maturity
enclosing the achenes within; up to c. 18 mm, reportedly edible.Yeah