Rosa cymosa

• Botanical Name : Rosa cymosa Tratt
• Synonyms : Rosa indica L.
• Common Name : Rose, Gulab
• Plant Family : Rosaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26-28, 30
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra

About Rosa cymosa Plant :

• Habit : A shrub with stem woody, aerial, erect or climbing, branched, solid, prickly and green.
• Leaves : Cauline and ramal, alternate, stipulate, stipules adnate, compound, unipinnate and imparipinnate, petiolate, ovate serrate, acute, unicostate, reticulate.
• Inflorescence : Solitary or in terminalpairs or sometimes in clusters.
• Flowers :
  • Ebracteate, pedicellate, complete, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, epigynous and cyclic.
  • Calyx with sepals 5, gamosepalous, quincuncial, persistent and hairy.
  • Corolla with petals 5 or more, polypetalous, imbricate, rosaceous, variously coloured. Androecium with indefinite stamens, polyandrous, filaments slender and unequal, dithecous, dorsifixed, introrse.
  • Gynoecium with polycarpellary, apocarpous, inferior ovary, enclosed in calyx tube, basal placentation, style short, stigma capitate.
• Fruit : Etaerio of achenes.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : Almost all the year but more during winter season.
• Significance :
  • It is generally cultivated because of its beautiful flowers.
  • The petals are the sources of rose water, essential oil, pankhuri and gulkand.
  • The essential oil yield by petals are used in perfumery and cosmetics.