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Rosa laevigata

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Michaux

Common Names

• Cherokee Rose
• Jin ying zi (Pinyin)
• Camellia Rose

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• S Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang-China
• Vietnam
• Laos
• Cambodia
• Japan
• Hong Kong
• Myanmar
• India

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• scrub
• montane areas
• cultivated land. Cultivated as an ornamental. Bark contains tannin used for tanning
• sugar is extracted from the fruit
• fruits used for wine fermentation
• medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China) Summer

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (China)

Evergreen or semi-evergreen climbing prickly shrub with solitary terminal or axillary 70mm fragrant white or pale pink single flowers, peduncles & calyx hispid, sepals tomentose both surfaces to 30mm long white or rarely pink petals to 40mm long, bristly fruit red-orange or purple-brown to 40mm long x 20mm diameter, bristly calyx, glabrous stems sparsely thorny, prickles to 6mm long, glabrous coriaceous leaflets, 3 serrated leaflets rarely 5, scattered falcate prickles on petioles & ribs of leaves, serrate glabrous leaflets evergreen to 60mm long

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• NAF