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Rosa phoenicia
Rosa phoenicia, the Phoenician rose, is a rambling or climbing, thorny wild rose species within the family Rosaceae. Native to the temperate Eastern Mediterranean and the Fertile Crescent, the species is an obligate or facultative geophyte specialized to freshwater alluvial floodplains, wetlands, and riparian banks. First systematically described in 1849, the plant holds significant horticultural and evolutionary importance as one of the direct ancestral progenitors involved in the ancient hybridization of the cultivated Damask rose. It has been proposed as an ancestor of the Damascene rose Rosa × damascena.
The native distribution of Rosa phoenicia is centered on Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean basin. Its established wild populations occur across the Golan Heights, western Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, northern Iraq, and the western and southern maritime regions of Turkey. Outlying historical records also trace its presence across the East Aegean Islands.
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
