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Rosa chinensis
Species of flowering plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosa chinensis (Chinese: 月季; pinyin: yuèjì), known commonly as the China rose,[2] Chinese rose,[3] or Bengal rose,[4] is a member of the genus Rosa native to Southwest China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan Provinces. The first publication of Rosa chinensis was in 1768 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in Observationum Botanicarum, 3, p. 7 & plate 55.
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Rosa chinensis | |
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A double-flowered cultivar | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Rosa |
Species: | R. chinensis |
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Rosa chinensis | |
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