Keyed Out #070 — Rosa glauca

Question 1

Five separate {petals} sit beside dozens of {stamens} arranged in a spiral, and every one of those parts is inserted on the rim of a shallow cup, not directly on a domed green centre.

Accepted Answer

rose family

Question 2

The leaves are set singly up the stem, each cut into several toothed {leaflets}, and a narrow leafy wing is welded along either side of the leaf stalk where it joins the wood.

Accepted Answer

Rosaceae

Question 3

By autumn the flower's own cup has swollen into a fleshy scarlet flask with hard one-seeded {achenes} loose in the cavity inside it, rather than a cluster of juicy beads massed on a common core or a pulpy nugget holding stony pips.

Accepted Answer

Rosa

Question 4

Beneath each pink flower stand five long tapering lobes that reach out past the petal tips, with no second, smaller ring of bracts tucked underneath them.

Accepted Answer

Rosa

Question 5

Every {leaflet} and every young cane is overlaid with a waxy film that deepens to plum-purple in strong sun, not merely a cool blue-green cast and certainly not plain matt green.

Accepted Answer

Rosa glauca

Question 6

The reddish-violet canes are all but unarmed, bearing only a scattering of small curved {prickles} rather than the dense stout hooks and bristles that arm most wild members of the group.

Accepted Answer

Rosa glauca