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Rosa cymosa

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Trattinnick

Common Names

• Xiao guo qiang wei (Pinyin)
• Bengal Rose
• China Rose
• Hnin-si-ani (Myanmar)
• Myitkaing (Myanmar)
• Uloi-ju (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Laos
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Warm humid places
• streamsides
• disturbed areas
• hillsides
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• May-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (China)

Evergreen climbing or creeping prickly shrub or tree with terminal many-flowered corymbs or umbels of 25mm diameter fragrant white or yellow flowers or red usually semi-double or solitary, sepals with white tomentum on outside, glabrous inside, glabrous fruit red, black or purple or black-brown 7mm across. Branchlets glabrous with falcate thorns, coriaceous serrated glabrous 3-7 leaflets

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Menninger 1970
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA