Red fruit in autumn. A very large, grey foliaged shrub with masses of small, single, white flowers, followed by small orange hips. Produces flowers rather shyly and intermittently for a long period. Very free flowering with single but large, purplish-pink flowers. A vigorous almost coarse shrub armed with large, flattened thorns.
Flowers are deep pink and the hips oblong.
Rosa virginiana A dense shrub with light green foliage and small single flowers. Also splendid autumn colours. Good in sandy soil. Prior to 1807. A shrub more important for its bottle-shaped red fruit than its flowers of rosy pink.