Lipolist

Since 1985, an annual festival Ruže Lipolista ("Roses of Lipolist") has been held. The flower festival dedicated to roses also includes poetry evenings and other cultural events. Lipolist is known in Europe for the production of the rose seedlings. Around 1,000,000 seedlings are produced yearly in village's nursery gardens, of which 800,000 are exported mainly to Russia, Poland and Germany.^[1] Lipolist is the largest rose seedling producer in Serbia.^[2]

The commercial seedling production began in 1931. As of 2019, a dozen of families had nurseries which employed 1,000 workers. The largest plantations have up to 6,500 plants. The best known variety was the "Maršalka" ("Marshall rose"), grown in France, and named after Yugoslav president Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The flower was white with red edges, and was the bestselling rose variety in Serbia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 2010s, the most grown cultivars were the purple ones. The breeders have been trying for decades to breed black roses, but the dark red color was the closest they achieved.^[1]

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