This is a natural hybrid, R. gallica × R. moschata, and a shrub to about 2 m tall. Prickles large, curved, equally sized and with bristles. Leaflets 5(7), ovate to elliptic, hairless above, downy below, teeth simple. Flowers semi-double in clusters, pink, fragrant; summer. Styles free, protruding. Fruit to about 2.5 cm wide, top-shaped and bristly.
var. semperflorens, Autumn Damask Rose (Four Seasons Rose, Quatre Saisons Rose). Flowers in autumn. 'Trigintipetala', Kazanlik Rose, has flowers semi-double with some red petals.They are open shrubs,mostly 1-1.5 m tall with arching branches having many prickles and thorns. The hips are long and narrow. Flowers are mostly semi-double or double, red, pink or white. In the 19th century there was some hybridisation with Gallica roses.
f. versicolor West., York and Lancaster Rose. Probably a sport of 'Kazanlik'. Flowers double, pink, white or mixed pink and white. Not to be confused with the different R. gallica 'Versicolor' or Rosa Mundi which is a large sport of 'Officinalis' with the flowers striped white, pink and red. Syn. 'Rosa Mundi'.
Asia Minor.
Source: (2002). Rosa. In: . 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.
Foliage downy. Flowers in pendulous clusters, semi-double with yellow stamens, pink, fading to white, strongly scented. Old rose of unknown parentage, produced before 1750.
Flowers semi-double, pale pink over a long flowering period, strongly scented. Of unknown parentage but raised in the Middle East before 1832.
See r. _damascena var. semperflorens 'Trigintipetala' above.
Rosa ×damascena 'La Ville De Bruxelles'
Flowers large, quartered, pink and strongly fragrant. Parentage unknown, raised Vibert, France, 1849.
Flowers double, pink to white, with deep red flecks on the tips of the petals, fragrant. Parentage unknown but probably arising in the early 19th century, pre- 1827.
Rosa ×damascena 'Madame Hardy'
Flowers pure white, double, folded towards the middle to reveal a green centre. Strongly scented. Parentage unknown, raised Hardy, France, 1832.
Flowers pale pink, double, scented. Seed gathered from plants growing on Omar Khayam's tomb in Nashipur were grown on the grave of Edward Fitzgerald of Norfolk, uk. These were later propagated, named and int. c. 1893.
Rosa ×damascena 'Quatre Saisons'
See r. _damascena.
Hivers' Stems thin and yellowish with grey leaflets. Petals pink with whitish margins. Origin and parentage unknown.