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Powis Castle Artemisia

'Maiden Grass'

Bright pink, satiny double flowers with soft creamy yellow stamens on an un-rose-like shrub having flakey brown bark, stout thorns which protrude from just below the leaves in pairs, and hairy leaves. The hips are like small chestnuts in their husks, turning from green to russet brown as they age. The plant is angular and stiff in habit. This rose is also known as the 'Chinquapin Rose' and 'Burr Rose'. William Roxburgh, assistant surgeon to the East India Company, came across this rose in a garden in Canton, China, where it had been grown for generations as 'Hoi-tong-hong'. He sent it to the Calcutta Botanic Garden after which it reached England and then quickly on to America. It still exists in many old Southern gardens today.

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