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Rosa bracteata

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

J.C. Wendland

Common Names

• Macartney Rose
• Shuo bao qiang wei (Pinyin)
• Chickasaw Rose
• Tunpanghka (Myanmar)
• Ye-si (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guizhou
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang-China
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Myanmar

Natural Habitats

• Coastal & scrubland
• forest
• streamside
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Late spring or May-Jul (China) Summer to Autumn

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Semi-evergreen shrub climbing or creeping with villous-tomentose stems armed with recurved prickles, terminal fascicles to 3 flowers with tomentose bracts, scented 100mm diameter single white or yellowish-white flowers, tomentose sepals 20mm long, white petals 30mm long, 38mm long orange fruit, branchlets are pubescent, pinnate leaves, 5-9 coriaceous glabrous mucronate finely serrate leaflets or lightly pubescent on mid vein beneath

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• FOC
• APDC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• NAF
• JAA