The rose that grows in many different forms in gardens all over the world today is an evolution of rose-like plants that lived in the northern hemisphere between 33 million and 23 million years ago. Traces of them have been found in the fossil record of the Oligocene epoch in Europe, Asia, and western North America.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2264/a-brief-history-of-the-rose/.