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Can anyone help identify a tiny, tiny, tiny flowering plant that looks EXACTLY like a rose plant and a rose?
This is about 2 inches tall, has serrated edged leaves like a rose, the leaves identical to a rose's leaves, and a tiny perfect flower, exactly like a rose.
The flower is yellow /gold, and about 1/2 inch in diameter.
This is probably a wildflower.
BTW, this is actually a dried plant found pressed in the pages of a very large Bible about 125 years old which belonged to my great-grandmother.

BTW, this is actually a dried plant found pressed in the pages of a very large Bible about 125 years old which belonged to my great-grandmother.

Oh! I love that story!

Thank you, ND.
It would be so nice to know what that flower is.
Really, it is identical in every way to a wild type rose, it's just that it's tiny.
Each leaf is about the size of a pea, but a mature leaf.
My beloved Grandma gave me the dried plant/flower and I framed it.
I think the flower when it was alive must have been yellow, because it's gold now.
You can even see the teeny tiny seeds in the center of the flower.

It sounds like your grandma gave you a very precious miniature rose. Perhaps she came across a natural phenomenon and preserved it for you to remember her by. Did she tell you anything about where it came from?

Hello,

I have mystery plants I would like some help in identifying. I started these plants from seeds. With the help of a couple of family members, my id tags were lost. (I wonder how that happened). LoL I am attempting to post pics of these mystery plants. Any help anyone can offer in identifying these plants would be greatly appreciated. I know they are perennials but that's all I know. This is my first time trying to post pictures so I'm not sure how successful I will be. Thanks in advance!!

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TC, did they have mini roses in the 1800's?
I'll have to research their origins.
My Grandma was born in California in 1897.
The little dried plant I have is MUCH, MUCH smaller than any mini rose I have seen.
Each leaf is the size of a pea. The flowers are about 1/2 inch in diameter.
The plant could have come from California, Canada or England.
I appreciate your interest.

can you scan the plant since it's dried up or take a picture of it?

I don't have a digital camera, and am just now learning my way around my new scanner/copier/printer/fax.
But the little plant is truly a miniscule rose of some kind. Rather, that's what it looks like.

I'm not certain, that's why I thought it may have been a natural phenomenon preserved in time. Very special and a wonderful gift from your Grandma to you.

Thank you, TC.
Maybe someday I'll find out what the flower is.
I still think it's a wildflower, and that some unknown ancestor pressed it into the Bible.