Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Rosa luciae
Common name
A rose
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Near old habitations, roadsides, and near streams. Sydney area, Blue Mountains, and Albury district. Records from Canberra but it is not on the Census of Vascular Plants of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Version 4.0 (13 September 2017).
Notes
Introduced shrub to about 3.5 m high, scrambling or sprawling, sometimes deciduous. Stems with scattered, often paired, prickles to about 7 mm long. Fruit fleshy. Stems almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 5–9 leaflets, each mostly 1–3 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, both surfaces hairless, midvein on the lower leaf surface with scattered glands, margins with gland-tipped teeth, tips blunt or pointed. A pair of hairless leaflike stipules at the base of each leaf, the margins toothed to deeply lobed, fringed with dispersed glandular hairs between the teeth. Flowers white or pink, usually double, with 10 petals, sometimes single with 5 petals, each 13–15 mm long. Flower stalks more or less hairless, sparsely glandular, without prickles. Flowers single or in few- to many-flowered clusters. Flowers Nov.–Dec. Fruit red to purplish, oval to round, to about 15 mm long, hairless or sparsely sticky hairy.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/e5cb6ca5-4c04-48a2-a784-2d5a66a59157 (accessed 18 March 2021)
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