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Yellow rose

Rosa xanthina

Also called Yellow Rose, Manchu Rose

Yellow rose
Photo: Daderot, CC0

Rosa xanthina is a hardy, deciduous shrub rose with single yellow flowers, native to northern China, Mongolia and Korea. It thrives in full sun and cold winters, and the cultivar 'Canary Bird' is a popular garden form.

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during establishment, then rely mostly on rain once established.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile soil; tolerates poor and alkaline soils.
Temperature
-30 to 30 °C; very cold hardy
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mongolia to China and Korea
Climate
temperate

About

Rosa xanthina, the yellow rose or Manchu rose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to China, Mongolia, and Korea. Its cultivar 'Canary Bird' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Other Rosa plants

Prickly rose · White rose of York · Prairie rose · Field-rose · Banksian Rose · Smooth rose · Macartney rose · California wildrose · Dog rose · Carolina rose · Chinese rose · Amur rose

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rosa xanthina 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.

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