Rosa multiflora
Common name
baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora rose
Family
Rosaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
NVS code
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ROSMUL
Conservation status
Not applicable
Habitat
Grows well in full sun or shade, loamy soils to eroded clay pans, and on moist to dry sites. Mainly in and close to settlements on roadsides, in waste places and shrubberies around old gardens.
Similar taxa
Pinnately compound leaves divided into 7-9 leaflets. Stems are glabros, erect, and arching with curved, flattened, broad based thorns. Flowers are white to pinkish white with 1.0-1.5 cm long petals. The 5 sepals ate lanceolate and glabrous to peberulent. Rose hips are red, 6-9 mm long, ovoid and fleshy. eventually they become firm and remain on the plant in the winter months.
Flower colours
Red/Pink, White
Fruiting
May-July (NH)
Year naturalised
1870
Origin
Japan, Korea and eastern China
Etymology
multiflora: From late Latin, feminine of multiflorus meaning ‘bearing many flowers’
Reproduction
Seed, root sprouts and layering.
Seed
A medium sized bush is capable of producing 500,000 to 1,000,000 seeds.. viable for 10-20 years.
Dispersal
birds and other animals