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Number of leaves on roses

sunandshadow
13 years ago

I was looking at the roses in my neighborhood, and some have leaves in the threes I've always thought typical of roses, but some have them in fives. Also, of the rose seedlings I'm growing, 3 of them are producing large single leaves (although some have a 'thumb' like it failed to divide into another leaf) while the rest are producing small triads of leaves. Do you all have any roses which produce leaves in unusual numbers? Do you think this variation is a result of roses being hybrids of species which had different numbers of leaves, or just variation within the species?

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