(2007)  
 
Rosa multiflora 'Grevillei' (syn. 'Platyphylla', R. m. var. platyphylla), a vigorous climber with flowers that change in colour through every shade from crimson-purple to white. Like thomas Evans's double pink cluster rose it was a garden variety of wild Rosa multiflora var. cathayensis and had long been cultivated in China, where it was known as Qizimei, that is 'Seven' or 'Ten' Elder and Younger Sisters', as so many different colours where visible at any one time in each cluster. The name 'Grevillei' refers to the belief that it was introduced by the Hon. Charles Greville. However, as most contemporary authorities thought that it arrived here between 1815 and 1817, it cannot have been introduced by Greville who had died several years earlier. Perhaps he grew it before his death and the original date of introduction has been lost. By 1817 it was already growing in a market garden near London and Philippe Noisette took cuttings to France which flowered in 1819.