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Stace 4:

Rosa multiflora Thunb. - Many-flowered Rose.

Scrambler, to 5m; leaves with (5)7(-9) leaflets, hairy to sparsely so but eglandular on lowerside, uniserrate with glandular teeth; flowers usually >10, usually white, 2-3cm across; pedicels 1-1.5cm, glandular-hispid; sepals reflexed; fruits ovoid to globose, <1cm, red; (2n=14). Neophyte-naturalised; grown in gardens for ornament and as stock for rambler-roses; naturalised in hedges and copses; scattered in British Isles; East Asia.

Key:

• Styles glabrous; deciduous; stems trailing to strongly arching
• Flowers 2-3cm across, in groups of ≥(6)10; stipules lobed >1/2 way to petiole