Damask rose
Rosa × damascena Herrm.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.2 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Rosaceae
Formerly Rosa × balcanica, Rosa × belgica, Rosa × bella-donna, Rosa × bifera, and 2 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
- Nowhere: raised in cultivationKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 2.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; NC State Extension 4–6 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Red, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -27.2 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -20 °C; NC State Extension -34.4 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Turkish
- Isparta Gülü, Yağ Gülü, Yağlık Gül
- Chinese
- 大馬士革玫瑰, 突厥薔薇, 大马士革蔷薇
- Chinese (China)
- 突厥蔷薇
- Russian
- Шиповник дамасский
- Dutch
- Damascusroos
- root
- Rosa gallica × moschata
- Finnish
- kesädamaskonruusut
- Spanish
- Rosa de Damasco
- Thai
- กุหลาบมอญ, ยี่สุ่น
- Arabic
- ورد دمشقي
- Slovak
- ruža damascénska
- Slovenian
- roža damaščanka
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, 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
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rosa × damascena (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.