Thick-stemmed shrub to about 2 m tall. Prickles dense, unequal and mixed, with bristles. Leaflets 5-9, more or less elliptic, hairless and wrinkled above, downy below, teeth simple. Flowers 1 or few, single, purplish pink; summer to autumn. Styles free, not protruding. Fruit 2 cm or so wide, roundish to pear-shaped, reddish to orange, hairless.

Japan, China, Korea, Russia.

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.