Rosa multiflora, Multiflora Rose, Baby Rose, Bramble Rose, Rambler Rose

Rosa multiflora, Multiflora Rose, Baby Rose, Bramble Rose, Rambler Rose, is an invasive alien and noxious weed from East Asia. Fruits and flowers traditionally used in laxatives in East Asia. Fruit poultice of wash applied to wounds, injuries, and sprains. Decoction of yellowish root used for sore back due to kidney pain. According to Pickering's 1879 Chronological History of Plants: "Rosa multiflora of Japan and China. Climbing with diminutive flowers . . . R. multiflora is described by Duhamel, Poiret, and Curtis bot. mag. pl. 1059. Eastward, was observed by Lush under cultivation at Dapooree near Bombay (Graham): by Thunberg, in Japan. By European colonists was carried to Northeast America, where it continues . . .



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