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Rosa × odorata; photograph Robin Fivet, CC BY-SA, via GBIF CC BY-SARobin Fivet, CC BY-SA, via GBIF

Rosa × odorata (Andrews) Sweet

Tea rose; Spice Humes blush

Rosaceae · China South-Central · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

A hybrid: R. chinensis × R. gigantea, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Rosa × odorata or Rosa odorata is a hybrid flowering plant of the genus Rosa native to Yunnan in southwest China, whose taxonomy has been confused. It has been considered a hybrid of Rosa gigantea and Rosa chinensis, or as a quite rare wild species that includes R. gigantea. The wild forms are cultivated to some extent. Cultivars were developed in China in ancient times from R. chinensis crosses, and these have been important in the ancestry of the tea-scented China roses, also called tea roses, and their descendants the hybrid tea roses.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rosa × odorata", 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 “climbing shrub or 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 “climbing shrub or 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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 153 of the 155 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central · introduced: China Southeast · 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).
Map marker25.013, 102.7 · in the densest population, 109 records (70% of those in range)
Kew's description“climbing shrub or liana” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 155 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 109 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 200 km away. 77 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 153 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 155 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Лобачев Владимир, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

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 Rosa chinensis var. fragrans; Rosa chinensis var. pseudoindica; Rosa indica subsp. fragrans; Rosa indica subsp. odorata; Rosa indica var. fragrans and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Andrews) Sweet
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
155 in range · 109 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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
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
Wikimedia Commons commons 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 47 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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