"Desert rose" might refer to:
- Desert rose (crystal), a rosette formation of gypsum and barite with sand inclusions
- Desert-rose or Adenium, a flowering plant in tropical Africa and Arabia
- "Desert Rose" (Sting song), a song on Sting's 1999 album Brand New Day
- "Desert Rose" (Eric Johnson song), a song on Eric Johnson's 1990 album Ah Via Musicom
- The Desert Rose Band, a country rock band founded by Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, and John Jorgenson
- Desert Rose, a pattern of Franciscan Ceramics dinnerware
- Desert Rose, a biography of Coretta Scott King written by her sister Edythe Scott Bagley
Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or rose:
“The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)