Then you must be growing this. My own little miniature St. Basil’s, ‘Janjin Malgai,’ a.k.a. Mongol’s Hat.
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Bravissimo !!
Pleeeeease…show the opened flowers, as well !!
St. Basil’s it is. Right on. Makes for a unique photo.
Hi Fara,
That’s a very striking photo!
Oops, sorry, I put the comment on the wrong thread…perhaps a self of this seedling might result in the “thornless moss”? Mossy sepals on smooth peduncles…
Thanks for the kind words everyone! I am going to make a few crosses with it this year, and also let a couple of hips self pollinate if I can, to see what I get. How this rose got to be a miniature, I haven’t a clue, but I notice its seed parent, ‘Nightmoss,’ has pretty much the same mossing pattern this year–though it has not had it before. This is the only mossing pattern Mongol’s Hat has ever had.
And here it is. Nothing special, but a lovely fragrance. Mongol’s Hat in bloom.
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Thx for posting the flower pic…I can imagine that fragrance…yum.
Here’s a better picture. This one shows the color accurately.
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Fara,
with those fab unopened buds and a fragrant flower like that, I wish I had one in my garden.
Bravo !
Well, now all I need to do is get some nursery to carry it.
I wish you the best to get your wish come true!
Fara,
Beautiful pictures!
Makes me wish that we could grow moss roses in our region…because, of course, I need more roses to cross with! 
I think it’s the heat that doesn’t ‘agree’ with them…but I might be wrong.
I think it’s the heat, lack of water/humidity and lack of sufficient winter chill to balance out the heat hours, Nat. I grew several in Newhall and even there, the ones which performed best received partial shade from the desert sun. There are often too many petals, of too soft texture and they flat out fry in the dry heat. Andrewsii flowered quite well there, but if exposed to more than a very few hours early sun on a very hot day, the flowers fried.
I think it’s the heat, lack of water/humidity and lack of sufficient winter chill to balance out the heat hours, Nat. I grew several in Newhall and even there, the ones which performed best received partial shade from the desert sun. There are often too many petals, of too soft texture and they flat out fry in the dry heat. Andrewsii flowered quite well there, but if exposed to more than a very few hours early sun on a very hot day, the flowers fried.