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Watercolor of a deep red wild rose with layered curling petals and a leafy stem against a black background.

Wild Rose (Rosa), watercolor

About roses:
Roses are flowering shrubs. Most are deciduous and have five petals and five sepals. The fruit is called a rose hip.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Plantae (plants)
SubTaxonomy:
Kingdom: Tracheobionta (vascular plants)
Superdivision: Spermatophyta (seed plants)
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons)
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Genus: Rosa

More information about roses:
Wikipedia: Roses
How to grow roses: University of Minnesota Extension: Roses - Starting Bare-Root