Shrub or small tree. Branches upright, almost thornless. Leaves divided into 5-7 toothed lobes, upper and lower surfaces covered with a greyish mat of hair; stipules large and bent. Flowers 2-2.5 cm wide, in soft-hairy, flattened clusters of 4-8; spring. Fruit orange to yellow, 2-2.5 cm wide.

W Asia.

Leaves deeply cut, grey and hairy.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Rosaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.