Your Daily Facts about Roses
The father of Botany Theophrastus (371-286 BC) first classified and identified plants. In his classic books Enquiry into plants and De Causis Plantarum (The causes of plants) he wrote about a "hundred-petaled rose" and called it centifolia (literally: hundred petals).Roman Emperor Nero liked to shower his guests with fresh rose petals. According to the legend, the dense rose-petal cloud nearly suffocated some of the guests.In the Middle Ages, it was customary for the wealthy to put rose petals a
