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| | All about flowers - THE ROCK-ROSE, Helianthemum vulgar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The varieties in cultivation comprise white, yellow, rose, crimson, and purple flowers in several shades, mostly single, but a few are double, and there is one sort with variegated leaves. |
 | | A very beautiful species is H. tuberaria, a herbaceous plant, native of South Europe, producing ribbed leaves and yellow sun-roses of the most exquisite beauty; and only needing what may be termed good conditions on the rockery. |
 | | A fine plant intermediate in character between a sun-rose and a cistus is Helianthemum ocymoides, an erect-growing shrub about two feet high, with ovate lanceolate leaves and flowers bright yellow, with a blotch at the base of each petal. |
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