Do roses come in seed form or instem form??
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Roses and all flowering plants have seeds. Flowering plants are called angiosperms. Non flowering plants, like ferns, are called gymnosperms. Roses are difficult to grow from seeds and they take several years to produce a mature plant. And if the seed is from a plant pollinated "in the wild" you don't know what you'll get until the plant is mature, and this may take as much as 7 - 10 years for the plant to flower. Because of this only commercial growers and plant hobbyists that are hybridizing roses attempt to grow roses from seeds. The rose plants that we see at nurseries are started from a cutting taken from a mature plant. The cutting will produce a mature plant identical to the parent plant in 1 - 3 years. Roses do not produce bulbs as one reader suggested. Roses are easy to start from cuttings. So if you are curious and adventurous, contact your local Rose Society, Garden Clubs or your local State University Extension Service for information. Most Rose Societies and Garden Clubs will have plant hobbyists that will happily give you "hands on" guidance. They may even have someone who is hybridizing roses who will be able to give you friendly face-to-face information.
Both the rose have to start from somewhere like a seed...Doesn't all plants?? My Dear...
Roses do come from seed, but most of the time they are purchased as mature plants, ready to bloom. Rose seeds are very tiny, and not especially easy to grow. Although there are hobbyists and commercial hybridizers that do raise plants from seed, most of us just go and purchase a young rose bush from a nursery :-)
Actually, roses will start out as seeds, but places where you purchase them: a nursery or a lawn & garden store (such as Home Depot) will have them in bulb form... they are approx. 1"x1" bulbs that you plant that will turn into a rose bush. Those are pretty hard to take care of and get going to be a rose bush, that's why they sell them already semi-bloomed.
The first answer is right, but rude. They always start out as seeds. I think that you were asking how are they when they are purchased.
I hope this helps!
When buying from nurseries and your local stores, they come in bush form. I only know of rose growers having them in any other form. I've raised roses for over 20 years and haven't come across any roses in seed form from nurseries or florists.
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