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Rosa roxburghii Tratt.
Family Rosaceae
Common name: Chestnut Rose

Rosa roxburghii Tratt. APNI*

Description: Erect shrub.

Leaves 9–15-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to oblong, 20–30 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, margins toothed, glabrous.

Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, 5–8 cm diam., pink to red, slightly scented, without prominent bracts. Sepals prickly, persistent. Hip globose, c. 20 mm long, yellowish, prickly, glabrous.


Flower
Photo J. Plaza

Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated, rarely naturalized. Native of China, Japan.
NSW subdivisions: *NC
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden & A. N. Rodd
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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