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Primavesi, T., 2006

Don't blame me. I never said it.

Tony Primavesi distances himself from the key to Rosa bearing his name in the 2006 edition of "The Wild Flower Key". His main objections are the use of the word "winding" rather than "flexuous" (certainly misleading) to describe stems, that the scent of downy roses is described as "unpleasant" (surely subjective - to my nose it can get too close to cigarette smoke) and that hips are occasionally referred to as "fruits" (surely no worse than the Daisy - Bellis perennis - being assigned "fl-stems" 3-12cm tall [p450]. Such simplifications are surely excusable in a popular work).

Malcolm Storey

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