Rosa montana

Stems up to 3 m, erect. Prickles curved or nearly straight, abruptly dilated at base. Leaflets 7 - 9, 20 - 35 x 12 - 25 mm, broadly obovate, biserrate, glabrous, bluish-green, glandular beneath on the midrib and rarely also on the lateral veins; petiole and rhachis glandular. Flowers solitary or 2 - 3. Pedicels very densely stipitate-glandular. Sepals glandular on the back, erect and persistent after anthesis. Petals 14 - 22 mm, pale pink, becoming whitish. Disc as wide as or very little wider than the orifice. Styles lanate. Fruit 15 - 25 mm, ovoid to elongate-pyriform, stipitate-glandular, rarely glabrous. S. Europe and parts of S. C. Europe. Au Ga Gr He Hs It? Ju Si.