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Rosa pendulina
Alpine Rose
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0618 0128 (2018-06-04)Copyright © 2018 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo May 23, 2018
latitude 46.35744 longitude 13.70176
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location
Lower Trenta valley; between villages Soča and Trenta, next to the Soča trail, between the main road Bovec- Vršič and river Soča, near farmhouse Matevž, Trenta 1.; East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: kimastoplodni šipek, alpski šipek - syn.: Rosa alpina L. - Habitat: narrow band of riparian forest between the road and river Soča, Salix eleagnos and Picea abies the most common trees; about 10 m form the river, steep mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous ground; mostly in shade; elevation 530 m (1.750 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comment: Rosa pendulina is another species in the large and taxonomically difficult genus Rosa, which is relatively easy to determine. Most apparent traits, which distinguish it from numerous other roses flowering in reddish shades are its deep pink-purple flowers without whitish center and long, undivided calyx leaves. It has dense, strait, thin and relatively soft thorns on stems (see picture 4) and older branches, while young sprouts are almost glabrous – have no hairs or thorns. When the plants are in fruit they carry characteristically nodding, narrow and +/- flask-shaped hips with persistent, long and strait, remnants of calyx. Another conspicuous character of this species is underground runners (stolons), so, quite often one can find several stems in a relatively small area growing together. The plant on these picture seems young and still small, yet there were almost ten small, still younger stems growing in a distance of less than 2 m from the main plant. The species is distributed in central and south Europe and is quite common there. In Slovenia it is most common in alpine and Dinaric phytogeographical region and in montane and subalpine elevations sometimes climbing up to almost alpine elevations. Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 522. (2) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 740. (3) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 276. (4) http://luirig.altervista.org/pics/display.php?pos=236505 (accessed June 2. 2018)camera Huawei Honor 8 Light
contributor's ID # Bot_1134/2018_IMG171804 photo category: Plant - shrub
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
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Alpine Rose, Drooping Rose (photographer)
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