The magnificent simplicity, or to some, the monotonous consistency, of the actiniomorphicflowers of the rose family has been recognized for millennia. The originof the name rose is summarized in the American Heritage Dictionary (2000):
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
The Rose Family
The rose is a rose
And was always a rose;
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose,
But were always a rose.
Robert Frost
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Hummer, K.E., Janick, J. (2009). Rosaceae: Taxonomy, Economic Importance, Genomics. In: Folta, K.M., Gardiner, S.E. (eds) Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models, vol 6. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77491-6_1
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