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Rosa longicuspis

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Bertoloni

Common Names

• White Rose of Sissinghurst
• Chang jian ye qiang wei (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Guizhou
• Sichuan
• Yunnan-China
• NE. India
• Myanmar

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• scrubland
• montane thickets
• streamside thickets
• hedgerows
• woodland

Flowering Times

• May-Jul (China) Mid to late summer

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (China)

Sparsely thorny normally evergreen tall climbing or scrambling shrub with glossy leaves, fragrant 50mm white or creamy-white single flowers sometimes flushed pink in many-flowered corymbs, fruit red to orange to 18mm long x 12mm across containing many achenes. Leaflets 7 to 9, short thick hooked prickles

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• Chudian 2001
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• JAA