China rose
റോസാ ചിനെൻസിസ്চীনা গোলাপ
Rosa chinensis Jacq.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Rosaceae
Also called China Rose, Bengal rose, Chinese rose
Formerly Rosa diversifolia, Rosa laurentiae, Rosa lawranceana, Rosa longifolia, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full; NC State Extension full, part
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.4 mRead from RHS, NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; NC State Extension 6–8 ft; Wikipedia 1–2 m
- Spread
- 1.4 m to 2.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 6–8 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, red, pink, purpleRead from RHS, NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: RHS pink, red, white; NC State Extension cream, pink, purple, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia green, pink, purple, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -19.1 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -15 °C; NC State Extension -23.3 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Rosa de Castilla, Rosa china
- Chinese
- 月季花, 月季
- French
- Rosier de Chine
- Japanese
- コウシンバラ, チャイナローズ, ロサ・キネンシス
- Russian
- Роза китайская, Роза чайная, Шиповник китайский
- Czech
- růže čínská
- Slovak
- ruža čínska
- Swedish
- kinaros
- Chinese (China)
- 月季, 月季花
- Estonian
- hiina kibuvits, hiina roos, teeroos
- Lithuanian
- Kininė rožė
- Korean
- 월계화
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Rosa chinensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.