Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. For thousands of years, roses have been entwined with humankind, permeating song, myth and story.
Roses are among the oldest of cultivated flowers.
Fossil remains of rose leaves and thorns have been found in Montana and Oregon, dating back more than thirty-five million years, according to one source. I love roses as well as the next gardener, but the second most numerous shrub in the understory of my USDA zone 7 woodland leaves me with very mixed emotions. Rosa multiflora Like all roses, the multiflora rose is a member of the family Rosaceae , which contains some one hundred genera and three thousand species of herbs, shrubs and trees, found mostly in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Apples, cherries, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and almonds as well as Spiraea all belong to this family. The multiflora rose, from Japan, Korea and eastern China, was introduced in the US in 1886 for use as a rootstock for ornamental roses.