"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 cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.”
—Ray Evans (b. 1915)