Rosa multiflora Thunb.
Baby Rose, Büschel-Rose, Japanese Rose, Japanese rose
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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.
At a glance
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.
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.
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
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 8 / 5–8 | 8 / 7–10 | 12 / 11–14 | 17 / 16–20 | 21 / 20–25 | 25 / 23–28 | 28 / 26–32 | 29 / 27–31 | 26 / 25–27 | 21 / 20–23 | 15 / 13–17 | 10 / 7–11 |
| Night °C | -0 / -3–0 | 0 / -1–2 | 3 / 3–5 | 9 / 8–11 | 14 / 13–17 | 18 / 17–21 | 22 / 21–25 | 23 / 22–25 | 20 / 19–21 | 13 / 12–15 | 7 / 6–9 | 2 / -0–4 |
| Rain mm | 66 / 26–84 | 78 / 42–91 | 126 / 66–172 | 121 / 89–169 | 153 / 106–182 | 226 / 155–289 | 219 / 175–288 | 191 / 156–264 | 186 / 96–259 | 107 / 52–199 | 80 / 42–118 | 49 / 19–68 |
| DLI | 17 / 17–18 | 22 / 20–23 | 27 / 24–29 | 33 / 29–35 | 34 / 32–36 | 31 / 28–34 | 33 / 30–34 | 32 / 30–34 | 26 / 25–27 | 23 / 21–24 | 18 / 17–19 | 16 / 15–17 |
| RH % | 58 / 55–59 | 58 / 54–60 | 58 / 57–61 | 60 / 57–61 | 61 / 59–63 | 65 / 62–67 | 67 / 64–70 | 66 / 63–68 | 63 / 61–65 | 59 / 59–62 | 59 / 58–61 | 57 / 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
Photographs
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.
Related
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.
Lycoris radiata Red spider lily
Iris japonica Fringed Iris
Macleaya cordata Five-seed Plume-poppy
Callicarpa dichotoma Purple Beauty-berry
Ophiopogon japonicus Dwarf Lily-turf
Rhododendron mucronatum White AzaleaOther Rosa 15 in the reference
Rosa banksiae Banksian rose
Rosa bracteata Macartney's rose
Rosa californica California rose
Rosa canina Dog rose
Rosa carolina Carolina Rose
Rosa chinensis Bengal rose
Rosa gallica Apothecary Rose
Rosa glauca Red-leaved Rose
Rosa luciae Memorial Rose
Rosa palustris Swamp Rose
Rosa rubiginosa Eglantine
Rosa rugosa Beach Rose all 16 ›History & registers
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