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Rosa abyssinica
Abyssinian Rose is a prickly, often climbing evergreen shrub native to tropical Africa and southwest Arabia, sometimes grown as a living fence. It is grown mainly for its fragrant white flowers and edible orange-red hips.
Rosa abyssinica is the only rose native to tropical Africa. Europeans first learned of the rose in the writings of 19th-century Scottish botanist Robert Brown. Rosa abyssinica is included in the genus Rosa, and the family Rosaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
Food (fruit and flower), medicinal (fruit), garden, ornamental.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rosa abyssinica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
