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Rosa multiflora

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Thunberg ex J. Murray

Propagation

B.C.S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

• Japanese Rose
• Baby Rose
• Ye qiang wei (Pinyin)
• No-ibara (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Henan
• Jiangsu
• Shandong - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Myanmar

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• scrubland
• montane shrubland
• forest edges

Flowering Times

• Summer Apr-May (China)
• May-Jun (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Oct (China)

Climbing or erect deciduous prickly shrub with reddish tomentose stems, peduncles and calyx, sparse recurved thorns to 5mm long 5-9, pinnate leaves with 3 pairs of leaflets, leaflets to 40mm long sharply serrate pubescent beneath. Many-flowered panicles or corymbs with bracts, fragrant white or red flowers to 30mm across, pubescent sepals to 15mm long, petals to 15mm long, 8mm diameter red-brown or purple-brown fruit

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• FONZ
• GWC 1997
• Chudian 2001
• APDC
• USNH
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• JAA
• FOJ
• Fedde