Climbing or trailing shrub. Prickles large, curved, well spaced. Leaflets 5-7, elliptic to ovate, to 4 cm long, hairless except sometimes on veins below; stipules narrow. Flowers 1-8, single, to 5 cm wide, fragrant, petals white to pink; summer. Styles united, protruding. Fruit to 2.5 cm wide, spherical or ovoid, red.

S Turkey, SW and C Europe.

Source: Adamson, S.; Bell, R.; Heathcote, R.; Hannemann, D.; Hannemann, F.; Huxley, I.; Newesteeg, J.; Spencer, R.; Sutherland, P. (2002). Rosa. 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.