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Rabu, 03 Juni 2009

Rose


A rose is a lovely flower. Many people are amused with this flower. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. Who is falling in love will look for roses to express this feeling. On the wedding day roses are one of the most important flower to be shown up. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses (including Isis, Venus and Aphrodite), and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. In Indonesia they spread petal roses both red and white on the graveyard. They call roses for this occassion as 'bunga tabur'.

In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or "under the rose", means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.

The rose is the national flower of England and the United States. It is also the provincial flower of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England (the white rose and red rose respectively), of Alberta (the wild rose) in Canada, and of Islamabad Capital Territory in Pakistan.

In US, it is the state flower of four US states: Iowa and North Dakota (R. Arkansana), Georgia (R.Laevigata) and New York (Rosa generally). Portland, Oregon counts "City of Roses" among its nicknames, and holds an annual Rose Festival.

A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. So, please be carefully if you want to arrange roses for your vase.

Most roses are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. Roses from Asia has small petals. And the roses from America has big petals.

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from tiny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 20 metres in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed from Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr). Indonesian mawar or ros.

Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.

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