虽然中国月季和玫瑰都能连续开花,但是玫瑰需要春化。二者种在温室里,月季常绿一直开花,玫瑰生长一段时间就衰弱了,落叶休眠,需要春化来恢复活力。 The following example should help to illustrate the complex relationships between continuous flowering and winter hardiness. Continuous flowering but tender cultivars of R. chinensis and continuous flowering but hardy cultivars of R. rugosa were grown together in the field and in the greenhouse. In the field, all cultivars flowered throughout the summer and fall until the termination of growth by frost. Termination of growth in the rugosa was accompanied by abscission of the foliage; but in the chinensis the dead foliage remained on the plants. In spring, the rugosa grew vigorously and showed little or no winter kill, but the chinensis did not survive. In the greenhouse, the chinensis were evergreen and continued to flower throughout the entire year without loss of vigour, but the rugosa grew and flowered vigorously through part of the year only. Even under the favourable growing conditions in the greenhouse, the rugosa abscised the foliage and lost vigour until growth was terminated. At this stage, growth could be induced only after a period of cold storage.
一些加拿大耐寒原种可以复花。玫瑰在北美过得很好,已经野化了。 Some hardy native Canadian species such as R. palustris Marsh., R. setigera Michx., and R. woodsii Lindl. flower repeatedly. Another hardy and repeatedly flowering species, R. rugosa Thunb., is native to Japan. It is very well adapted to the climatic conditions of the North American continent and is frequently found as an escapee. http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_bc9f8f830102wv7y.html 沼泽蔷薇( Rosa palustris ) 可以长在水里
玫瑰*中国月季 F1 28%连续开花,抗寒(尽管不如玫瑰),3562株幼苗中只有25株能产生种子, 不同亲本组合花粉可育比例从2%-25%不等。 At the beginning of the breeding program it seemed that new everblooming and hardy roses could be obtained through hybridization of rugosa and chinensis cultivars. Many hybrids of rugosa are known but, to my knowledge, only one hybrid of R. rugosa x R. chinensis was described previously. This hybrid was obtained before 1891 by Bruant of Poitier and described by Andre as R. calocarpa. Regrettably, it is no longer available. We have grown 3562 seedlings from combinations of rugosa and chinensis cultivars between 1962 and 1970. The hybrids survive the winter at Ottawa without coverage, but they are not as hardy as the rugosa parents. Only 28% of the flowering hybrid seedlings flowered continuously. The hybrids from certain cultivars failed to produce flowers. The greatest obstacle to further improvement was the sterility of the hybrids. Only 25 from 3562 seedlings were able to set seeds. The amount of normal and stainable pollen grains varied from 2 to 25% in different hybrids. In spite of low pollen fertility, offspring was obtained from back crosses. The back cross to the chinensis parents produced only tender offspring. The back cross to the rugosa parents produced hardy offspring, but very few seedlings compared favourably in appearance of flowers and shrubs to seedlings from rugosa parentage only.