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Rosa multiflora Thunb.

Baby Rose, Büschel-Rose, Japanese Rose, Japanese rose

Climate known 61 photographs Temperate garden plant
Add one to my plants Sow seed

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

Summary

Rosa multiflora is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, many-flowered rose, seven-sisters rose, Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It is native to eastern Asia, in China, Japan, and Korea. It should not be confused with Rosa rugosa, which is also known as "Japanese rose", or with polyantha roses which are garden cultivars derived from hybrids of R. multiflora. It was introduced to North America, where it is an invasive species, forming extensive, impenetrable stands within forest understories, thickets, borders, and lowlands. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Rosa multiflora”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Thunb.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +3
Wild records
10 in range· 1 open

At a glance

Warmest month
29°C
Aug, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1602mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 226 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–34DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Rosa, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (March to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1602 mm a year, wettest June at 226 mm, driest December at 49 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -6.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Rosa blinii H.Lév.; Rosa calva (Franch. & Sav.) Boulenger; Rosa calva var. formosana (Cardot) Boulenger; Rosa dawsoniana Ellw. & Barry; Rosa dawsoniana Ellw. & Barry ex Rehder and 45 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Rosa, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (March to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1222 mm of 1602 mm) falls in March to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 19.6 °C against a yearly mean of 15.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1602 mm a year, wettest June at 226 mm, driest December at 49 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1602 mm a year at the habitat, 1222 mm of it March to September. Wettest month June at 226 mm, driest December at 49 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1259 mm to 2032 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -6.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -6.3 °C, the absolute minimum -21.3 °C, about 59 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -0.4 °C in January (across the envelope cells -2.6 °C to 0.3 °C), warmest day 29.4 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -6.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 8 °C in Jan to 29 °C in Aug; mean night from -0 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1602 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 10 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -21.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost34.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-21.3° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 16–34RH 57–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 10 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C8 / 5–88 / 7–1012 / 11–1417 / 16–2021 / 20–2525 / 23–2828 / 26–3229 / 27–3126 / 25–2721 / 20–2315 / 13–1710 / 7–11
Night °C-0 / -3–00 / -1–23 / 3–59 / 8–1114 / 13–1718 / 17–2122 / 21–2523 / 22–2520 / 19–2113 / 12–157 / 6–92 / -0–4
Rain mm66 / 26–8478 / 42–91126 / 66–172121 / 89–169153 / 106–182226 / 155–289219 / 175–288191 / 156–264186 / 96–259107 / 52–19980 / 42–11849 / 19–68
DLI17 / 17–1822 / 20–2327 / 24–2933 / 29–3534 / 32–3631 / 28–3433 / 30–3432 / 30–3426 / 25–2723 / 21–2418 / 17–1916 / 15–17
RH %58 / 55–5958 / 54–6058 / 57–6160 / 57–6161 / 59–6365 / 62–6767 / 64–7066 / 63–6863 / 61–6559 / 59–6259 / 58–6157 / 56–59

Each figure is the median across the 10 grid cells holding the 10 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1181:5951 (30.925, 117.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -21.3 °C, 1st-percentile night -6.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 10 distinct grid cells holding the 10 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1181:5951 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 31.00_117.500, lapse-corrected +73 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 121 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, East Himalaya· introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Morocco, Canary Is., Madeira, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Assam, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Gilbert Is., British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, California, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Southeast, Guatemala, Argentina South
Kew's description“scrambling shrub or liana” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.15, 138.95 · in the densest population, 5 records (50% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 984 km away. 773 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map and the climate as indicative.
The map markerthe map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 10 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) syvwlch, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) William J. Deml, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Gavin Slater, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Rosa multiflora, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

NEST PREDATION IN AN URBANIZING LANDSCAPE:THE ROLE OF EXOTIC SHRUBS
Kathi L. Borgmann, Amanda D. Rodewald (2004) · Ecological Applications
Environment Influences Anatomy of Stomata and Epidermal Cells in Tissue-cultured Rosa multiflora
Montserrat Capellades, R. Fontarnau, C. Carulla, Pierre Debergh (1990) · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Effects of plant invasions on the species richness of abandoned agricultural land
Scott J. Meiners, Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso (2001) · Ecography
Genome structure of Rosa multiflora, a wild ancestor of cultivated roses
Noriko Nakamura, Hideki Hirakawa, Shusei Sato, Shungo Otagaki (2017) · DNA Research
Influence of Land Use and Site Characteristics on Invasive Plant Abundance in the Quinebaug Highlands of Southern New England
Marjorie R. Lundgren, Christine J. Small, Glenn D. Dreyer (2004) · Northeastern Naturalist
Using RNA-Seq to assemble a rose transcriptome with more than 13,000 full-length expressed genes and to develop the WagRhSNP 68k Axiom SNP array for rose (Rosa L.)
C.F.S. Koning-Boucoiran, G. Esselink, Mirjana Vukosavljev, W.P.C. van ‘t Westende (2015) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Initial Conditions, History and Successional Pathways in Ten Contrasting Old Fields
Randall W. Myster, Steward T. A. Pickett (1990) · The American Midland Naturalist
Birds Select Fruits with More Anthocyanins and Phenolic Compounds During Autumn Migration
Jessica A. Bolser, Rebecca R. Alan, Adam Smith, Liya Li (2013) · The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
Antibacterial activity of traditional medicinal plants used by Haudenosaunee peoples of New York State
Frank M. Frey, Ryan Meyers (2010) · BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
USE OF SUCCESSIONAL HABITAT AND FRUIT RESOURCES BY SONGBIRDS DURING AUTUMN MIGRATION IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
Hannah B. Suthers, Jean M. Bickal, Paul G. Rodewald (2000) · The Wilson Bulletin
Old field Vegetation Height and the Dispersal Pattern of Bird-Disseminated Woody Plants
Mark J. McDonnell (1986) · Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Rosa 15 in the reference

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