The rose

The rose is the flower of roses, shrubs of the genus Rosa and the family Rosaceae. The rose gardens are characterized above all by the multiplication of its nested petals that give it its characteristic shape.
Appreciated for its beauty and fragrance, celebrated since ancient times by many poets and writers and painters for its colors ranging from pure white through to dark yellow and all shades in purple, and her perfume, she became the "queen of flowers" in the Western world (the peony fight him this title in China), present in almost every garden and almost all the bouquets.
The rose is one of the most cultivated plants in the world and ranks first in the market for cut flowers (with some 730 billion euros in 2008), but we often forget that roses are also wild plants (best known in Europe rose hips) single flowers with five petals, which have become fashionable for their more natural look, in recent decades as the "botanical roses."
Cultivated roses are the result of thousands of years of empirical transformations first, then at the end of the eighteenth century, methodical, especially hybridization. The varieties are endless, the number of cultivars currently available worldwide1 is estimated at over 3000.