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Rosa moschata Herrm.

Musk rose

Rosaceae · Afghanistan, Iran · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

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Rosa moschata, photograph GGM C, CC BY-SA, via GBIFRosa moschata, photograph ben vc, CC BY-SA, via GBIFRosa moschata, photograph Jürg Buob, CC BY-SA, via GBIFRosa moschata, photograph Re Cinzia, CC BY-SA, via GBIFRosa moschata, photograph Franco-Parguiña Héctor, CC BY-SA, via GBIFRosa moschata, photograph ben vc, CC BY-SA, via GBIF 19 photographs ›

Summary

Rosa moschata, the musk rose, is a species of rose which has been long in cultivation. Its wild origins are in southern Iran to Afghanistan.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rosa moschata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Rosa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “liana”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Rosa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “liana”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAfghanistan, Iran · introduced: Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Sicilia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Assam, East Himalaya, India, West Himalaya, New Zealand North, Illinois, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“liana” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 125 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: GGM C, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; ben vc, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (2); Jürg Buob, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Re Cinzia, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Franco-Parguiña Héctor, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Other Rosa 126 in the reference

Rosa abietina Rosa abietina Needle rose Photo: CC BY-SA, michele barrereRosa abyssinica Rosa abyssinica Abyssinian rose Photo: CC BY, Jacky JudasRosa acicularis Rosa acicularis Prickly rose Photo: CC BY, Syd CanningsRosa agrestis Rosa agrestis Small-leaved Sweet-briar Photo: CC BY, Bobo-XRosa × alba Rosa × alba White rose of York Photo: CC BY, jamie-aaRosa alberti Rosa alberti Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander DubyninRosa amblyotis Rosa amblyotis Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Salicyna Rosa × andegavensis Rosaceae Rosa arkansana Rosa arkansana Prairie rose Photo: CC0, author not statedRosa arvensis Rosa arvensis Field rose Photo: CC BY, David SandlerRosa balsamica Rosa balsamica Round-leaved dog-rose Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrea MoroRosa banksiae Rosa banksiae Banksian rose Photo: CC BY, Janetmhm all 127 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Prunus cerasifera subsp. pissartii; Rosa arborea; Rosa broteroi; Rosa brownii; Rosa brunonii var. arborea and 36 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Rosa sempervirens Dup. and Rosa sempervirens Dup. ex Steud. is an older name of this species, not Rosa sempervirens, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Herrm.
Native to
Afghanistan, Iran
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 10 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (8 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Rosa moschata Herrm. (the item's: IPNI 733394-1, POWO 733393-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 34 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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