Shrub to about 2 m tall with purplish brown stems. Prickles dense, straight and narrow, combined with bristles. Leaflets mostly 7-9, broad, hairless above, sometimes hairy on midvein below, teeth simple. Flowers solitary, single or double, creamy white; summer. Fruit mostly 1-1.5 cm wide, roundish, brownish black, hairless.

China, Korea to SW and C Asia, S and W 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.