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The original rose, before humans edited it into something less interesting.
means A rose growing in its natural, unbred form — typically a simple five-petaled flower, often pink or white, found in hedgerows and wild thickets rather than florist shops.
from 'Wild' here comes from Old English 'wilde,' meaning self-willed or untamed, used since early times to mark the natural form of a plant or animal against its cultivated or domesticated cousin. 'Rose' traces back through Old English and Latin 'rosa' to Greek 'rhodon,' with possible roots further east, in Iranian languages — the flower's name has been traveling almost as long as the flower itself. Pair them and you get a phrase that simply tells you: this is the rose before anyone got their hands on it.
- petal count
- Five, always, unlike cultivated roses doubled by breeding
- fruit
- Rose hips, packed with more vitamin C than oranges
- fragrance trade-off
- Often lighter scent than hybrids bred for perfume
- symbolism
- Alberta's provincial flower, named for sheer stubborn survival