Rose Petals Peach with Pink and Purple Edges

Acrylic Painting by Nadine Johnston of Rose Petals.... more

by Bob and Nadine Johnston

Title

Rose Petals Peach with Pink and Purple Edges

Artist

Bob and Nadine Johnston

Medium

Photograph - Acrylic - 25 Frame-able Gifts Of Art $57 - Painted By Hand With 27 Styles Of Brushes Size 00-20.

Description

Acrylic Painting by Nadine Johnston of Rose Petals.
Rosaceae or the rose family is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species... The name is derived from the type genus Rosa.

Rosaceae includes herbs, shrubs and trees. Most species are deciduous, but some are evergreen.... They have a worldwide range, but are most diverse in the northern hemisphere.

Several economically important products come from the Rosaceae, including many edible fruits, such as apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, raspberries, loquats, and strawberries, almonds, and ornamental trees and shrubs such as roses, meadowsweets, photinias, firethorns, rowans, and hawthorns...


Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach seven meters in height. Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.

The flowers of most species have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. There are multiple superior ovaries that develop into achenes. Roses are insect-pollinated in nature.

The fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Many of the domestic cultivars do not produce hips, as the flowers are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, which contains 5�160 "seeds" embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the dog rose are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.


Roses are best known as ornamental plants grown for their flowers in the garden and sometimes indoors. They have been also used for commercial perfumery and commercial cut flower crops. Some are used as landscape plants, for hedging and for other utilitarian purposes such as game cover and slope stabilization. They also have minor medicinal uses.

Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, marmalade, and soup or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.

Rosa canina hips
Rose petals or flower buds are sometimes used to flavour ordinary tea, or combined with other herbs to make herbal teas.

In France there is much use of rose syrup, most commonly made from an extract of rose petals. In the United States, this French rose syrup is used to make rose scones and marshmallows. In the Indian subcontinent Rooh Afza, a concentrated squash made with roses, is popular, as well as rose-flavored ice cream.

Rose flowers are used as food, also usually as flavouring or to add their scent to food. Other minor uses include candied rose petals.

Rose creams or rose flavoured fondant covered in chocolate, often topped with a crystallised rose petal are a traditional English confectionery widely available from numerous producers in the UK

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December 4th, 2014