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Rosa chinensis

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Rosa chinensis

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species of plant

Species

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRosales
  5. FamilyRosaceae
Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central
Observations recorded3,130

Cultivated.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
628
With media
501
Family
Rosaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, INECOL, UACH, IIB-UV, UJAT, CIHS-UAC
Recorded in
Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Rosa
Image
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taxon name
Rosa chinensis
Commons category
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Rosa chinensis
taxon common name
月季花
taxon range
São Luís
short name
R. chinensis
taxon author citation
Jacq.
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Encyclopedic overview

Rosa chinensis (Chinese: 月季; pinyin: yuèjì), known commonly as the China rose, Chinese rose, or Bengal rose, is a member of the genus Rosa native to Southwest China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan Provinces. The first publication of Rosa chinensis was in 1768 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in Observationum Botanicarum, 3, p. 7 & plate 55.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rosa chinensis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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