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AARS:
All American Rose Selection.
Blade:
The broad part of a leaf.
Bract:
A modified or reduced leaf that occurs beneath and next to a peduncle.
Bud Union:
The swollen part of the stem where the scion of a grafted rose meets the understock.
Calyx:
The protective cover of a rose flower, composed o the sepals.
Cane:
One of the main stems of a rose plant.
Climbers:
Roses whose long canes can be trained along fences or walls, variable in flower size, form and mature habit.
Corolla
The petals of a rose flower considered as a single unit.
Cultivar:
A named rose variety exhibiting distinct and consistent features, indicated by single quotation marks.
Floribunda:
Medium sized flowers often more compact in habit, medium length stems.
Grandiflora:
Large flowers borne in clusters usually taller in habit, individual stems within each cluster are suitable or cutting.
Hip:
The fruit of a rose Inflorescence: the flowering part of a plant; a rose inflorescence may bear single or multiple flowers.
Hybrid Tea:
Large flowers generally borne one per stem, medium to tall in habit, long cutting stems.
Leaflet:
The individual segment of a compound rose leaf.
Miniatures:
Small flowered roses with proportionately smaller foliage, often very compact in habit, stems are also shorter but still suitable for cutting.
Node:
The point on a stem from which leaves and buds emerge.
Old Rose:
Strictly speaking, a rose introduced before 1867, but more loosely used to describe any rose grown or introduced before 1900 Once-blooming: a rose that flowers only once in early summer and does not repeat.
Own-root:
A rose propagated as a cutting rather than by grafting.
Peduncle:
A stalk that supports a single flower or flower cluster Petal: the showy, usually colored part of a flower.
Petiole:
The stalk by which a leaf attaches to a stem; also leafstalk.
Pistil:
The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, style, and stigma.
Polyanthas:
Small flowers borne in very large clusters, usually compact in habit, medium-short stems.
Prickle:
The technical term for a rose thorn.
Root-stock:
The root portion of a plant onto which the scion is grafted; also understock
Rugosas:
Species or near-species roses valued for their hardiness old fashioned flowers and fountainous habits. Many are available on their own roots.
Scion:
A shoot grafted onto a rootstock; the "top" of a grafted rose.
Sepal:
One of the five individual, leaflike divisions of the calyx.
Shrubs:
Free blooming plants with differing flower sizes and forms, broadly varying in mature size but of full bushy attractive habit,usually good disease resistance and hardiness.
Shrublets™:
Roses of varying habits which are never too big to tuck into restricted garden spaces.
Sport:
A spontaneous genetic mutation, often resulting in a plant that bears flowers of a different color or with more or fewer petals than the original plant.
Stamen:
The male reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of a filament and anther.
Stipule:
A small, leaflike appendage that occurs at the base of the petiole.
Sucker:
A stem, usually unwanted, that originates from a rootstock.
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