Roses are erect shrubs up to 2 meters tall; stems are stout and tufted; branchlets are densely tomentose and have needles and glandular hairs with erect or curved, yellowish prickles that are externally tomentose. Leaflets 5-9, 5-13 cm long with petiole; leaflets elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, apex acute or rounded-obtuse, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margins sharply serrate, dark green and glabrous above, nerves sunken and folded, grayish-green below, midvein elevated, reticulate veins conspicuous, densely tomentose and glandular hairy, sometimes glandular hairs inconspicuous; petiole and Leaf rachis densely tomentose and glandular hairy; stipules largely adnate to petiole, free part ovate, margin glandular serrate, tomentose below. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, or several in clusters, bracts ovate, margin glandular hairy, outside tomentose; pedicels 5?-22.5 mm, densely tomentose and glandular hairy; flowers 4-5.5 cm in diam; sepals ovate-lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate, often pinnately lobed and spreading into leafy form, sparsely pilose above, densely pilose and glandular hairy below; petals obovate, double to semibigandular, fragrant, purplish red to white; Styles free, hairy, slightly projecting beyond mouth of calyx tube, much shorter than stamens. Fruit compressed globose, 2-2.5 cm in diam., brick-red, fleshy, smooth, sepals persistent. Flowering in May-June, fruiting in August-September.