Rosa filipes

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iRosa filipes

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Genus: Rosa
Species: R. filipes
Binomial name
Rosa filipes
Rehder & E. H. Wilson

Rosa filipes is a rose species native to China ). The species is an climbing shrub, 3–5 m, with long repent branches. Prickles scattered, curved. Leaves sparsely glandular-pubescent with (3-)5-7(-9) leaflets. Flowers 25-30 in a corymb, 2-2,5 cm in diameter, white, fragrant. Hips deep red. Flowers in mid to late summer.

Roadsides and thickets. 1300-2300 m.

Makes a beautiful garden plant.