Rosaceae: Rose Family
Habit: shrubs, trees, rarely herbs
Leaves: alternate (opposite), simple or compound, stipulate (estipulate)
Plants: synoecious (rarely mono-or dioecious)
Inflorescence: cymose, determinate or indeterminant
Flowers: perfect (rarely imperfect), regular (rarely irregular), hypanthium well-developed
Sepals: 5 (4-many), connate, sometimes bractlets
Petals: 5 (4-many, absent), separate
Stamens: 10-many (1-), distinct
Ovary: 1-many carpels, distinct or 2-5 connate; superior, unilocular with 1-2 (many) marginal ovules, (rarely 2-5 locules and axile ovules) or ovary inferior with 2-5 locules and 1-2 (many) axile ovules, styles 1 per carpel, distinct
Fruit: drupe, achene, follicle, pome, capsule, aggregates of drupelets, achenes, follicles