Rose

I'd rather have Roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

Roses are the best gifts ever. Roses are known for their exclusive beauty and fragrance. Gift a bouquet of roses to your beloved parents to show your gratitude, to your fiance/fiancee or your partner to express your love and to your friends to tell them how much they mean to you.

Roses are the most popular flowers in the world and have probably always been the most popular flowers. Roses have been symbols of love, beauty, war and politics from the beginning of time.

Kingdom

Plantae

Division

Magnoliophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Subfamily

Rosoideae

Genus

Rosa

Different varieties and colors of Roses denote different Meanings. Rose is popularly known as the flower of love, particularly Red Roses.

Rose, besides being the popular gifts around the world, are also a great addition for the homes and offices as decorations. A rose flower in a drinking glass arranged on a table to a floral arrangement of a bunch of roses add that extra touch to the decor. Besides fresh cut roses, artificial flowers like silk roses in different colors are also widely used. Order your silk rose now and add grace to your decoration.

Facts About Roses

• The birthplace of the cultivated Rose was probably Northern Persia, on the Caspian, or Faristan on the Gulf of Persia.
• Historically, the oldest Rose fossils have been found in Colorado, dating back to more than 35 million years ago.
• Roses were considered the most sacred flowers in ancient Egypt and were used as offerings for the Goddess Isis. Roses have also been found in Egyptian tombs, where they were formed into funerary wreaths.
• Confucius, 551 BC to 479 BC, reported that the Imperial Chinese library had many books on Roses.
• Ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia (in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley) mentioned Roses in a cuneiform tablet (a system of writing) written in approximately 2860 BC.
• The English were already cultivating and hybridizing Roses in the 15th Century when the English War of Roses took place. The winner of the war, Tudor Henry VII, created the Rose of England (Tudor Rose) by crossbreeding other Roses.
• While no Black Rose yet exists, there are some of such a deep Red color as to suggest Black.
• Roses are omnipresent and grown over all parts of the globe.
• The Netherlands is the world's leading exporter of Roses.

The Netherlands, with about 8000 hectares of land under Rose cultivation, is the global leader in Rose cultivation. 54 per cent (about 5000 hectares) of the cultivated land in Ecuador is under Rose cultivation!! Zambia, a small nation, had 80 per cent of its cultivated land under Roses.