Shrub with long climbing stems. Prickles large, hooked, well-spaced, reddish. Leaflets evergreen, 3(5), tough, elliptic to ovate, to 6 cm long, hairless, glossy above, teeth simple. Flowers 5-10 cm wide, solitary, whitish, fragrant; summer. Styles free, not protruding. Fruit to 4 cm wide, pear-shaped, orange-red, bristly.

Burma, Taiwan, SE Asia, S China. Shows some tendency to become naturalised in Qld and on the N coast of NSW.

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.