Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 5 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Taiwan | TAI | |
| Laos | LAO | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Vietnam | VIE |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 114 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -1.6 °C | 10.0 °C | 13.2 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 27.2 °C | 28.8 °C | 33.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,131 mm | 1,361 mm | 2,805 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 84 mm | 135 mm | 238 mm |
It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 114 research-grade observations of Rosa indica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 41 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Rosa amoyensis Hance
- Rosa banksiae var. microcarpa Regel
- Rosa bodinieri H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Rosa borbonica Dippel
- Rosa cavaleriei H.Lév.
- Rosa chaffanjonii H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Rosa cymosa Tratt.
- Rosa cymosa f. plena Z.X.Yu & G.Z.Liu
- Rosa cymosa var. dapanshanensis F.G.Zhang
- Rosa cymosa var. puberula T.T.Yu & T.C.Ku
- Rosa esquirolii H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Rosa fragariiflora Ser.
- Rosa fragariifolia Ser. ex Steud.
- Rosa fukienensis F.P.Metcalf
- Rosa indica unranked alba Andrews
- Rosa indica unranked caryophyllea Thory
- Rosa indica unranked creunta Thory
- Rosa indica unranked incurva Andrews
- Rosa indica unranked lawrenciana Thory
- Rosa indica unranked longifolia Thory
- Rosa indica unranked minor Andrews
- Rosa indica unranked pannosa Thory
- Rosa indica unranked purpurea Andrews
- Rosa indica unranked rubra Andrews
and 17 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.