{{short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Starr 070302-5056 Merremia tuberosa.jpg | genus = Distimake | species = tuberosus | authority = (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples | synonyms = * ''Batatas tuberosa'' <small>(L.) Bojer</small> * ''Convolvulus gossypiifolius'' <small>Kunth</small> * ''Convolvulus kentrocaulos'' <small>Steud. ex Choisy</small> * ''Convolvulus macrocarpus'' <small>Spreng.</small> * ''Convolvulus tuberosus'' <small>(L.) Spreng.</small> * ''Ipomoea glaziovii'' <small>Dammer</small> * ''Ipomoea mendesii'' <small>Welw.</small> * ''Ipomoea nuda'' <small>Peter</small> * ''Ipomoea tuberosa'' <small>L.</small> * ''Merremia tuberosa'' <small>Rendle</small> * ''Operculina tuberosa'' <small>(L.) Meisn.</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-8500796|title=The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species}}</ref> }}

'''''Distimake tuberosus''''', also known as '''Spanish arborvine''' or '''wood rose''', commonly known as the '''Hawaiian wood rose''', is a vine in the family Convolvulaceae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=METU2|title=Plants Profile for Merremia tuberosa (Spanish arborvine)|website=plants.usda.gov|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> It is native to the Americas, from Florida and Texas to Brazil,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Flora of Guatemala|last=Standley|first=Paul Carpenter|last2=Williams|first2=Louis Otho|date=1970|publisher=Field Museum of Natural History|volume=v.24:pt.9:no.1-2 (1970)|location=Chicago, Ill.|pages=74–75}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/8500796?projectid=3|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - Merremia tuberosa (L.) Rendle|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> although considered by the USDA as introduced to the United States.<ref name=":0" /> It is an invasive species in a number of islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean, such as New Caledonia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hear.org/pier/species/merremia_tuberosa.htm|title=''Merremia tuberosa'' (PIER species information)|date=23 August 2011|publisher=Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)|access-date=20 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers12-08/010052239.pdf|title=Les espèces exotiques envahissantes de Nouvelle-Calédonie|last=Hequet|first=Vanessa|year=2009|pages=17|language=fr}}</ref>

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