Does anyone know the number of Petals on some Flowers? Esp. Roses.?

Question

Seems like most flowers I like have 6 Petals. When I try to search online I get Deep Thoughts,.. I'm looking for real flowers not deep thoughts XD Roses seem to have 5 Petals and Lillies seem to have 6 but I'd like to double check and get some more counts if posible.

Answer 1

When you do a search and get a result that isn't what you want, use a minus sign to exclude it from the results, like:

roses +number of petals -Deep Thoughts

That should exclude pages that contain the phrase "Deep Thoughts." The plus symbol should make the results return a page that contains both the phrase "roses" AND the phrase "number of petals."

There are hundreds, if not thousands of cultivars of roses, so there is no simple answer.

A rose can have anywhere from no petals, like Rosa chinensis viridflora, known as the “Green Rose”; it has no petals at all (it is actually covered by lots of sepals), to many old garden roses and English roses that may have more than 100 petals. The number of petals, or petal count, is a measure of the fullness of the rose.

Single roses are defined by the American Rose Society to have between four and eight petals, while roses categorized as semi-double have nine to sixteen petals, double blooms have 17 – 25 petals, full blossoms are 26 – 40 and very full are 41 or more.

All roses were originally singles, composed of five petals, with the exception of one four-petaled species. As natural mutations occurred that replaced stamens and pistils with additional petals, semi-double and double roses appeared.

Flowers of hybrid teas, floribundas, and other rose classes with China and Tea roses prevalent in their ancestry have a lower petal count, but their petals are larger and longer.

Today, a double rose with 17 – 25 petals is the norm.

Answer 2

The basic rose always has 5 petals, as seen in the Tudor rose symbol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Rose

Some of the cultivated varieties are double roses, so they would have 10 petals.