It is a shrub that reaches 1ââ¬â2 m and grows in hedges or forms thickets. The leaves are pinnate, have 3ââ¬â5 leaflets, each leaflet 2.5ââ¬â6 cm long and 1ââ¬â3 cm broad. In the wild species sometimes listed as Rosa chinensis var. spontanea, the flowers have five pink to red petals. The fruit is a red hip 1ââ¬â2 cm diameter. The strong, stalk-round branches have an almost bare, purplish-brown bark and there may be many to no curved, stocky, flat spines. The alternately arranged leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade and a total of 5 to 11 inches long.
The petiole and the rhachis are sparsely spiked and glandular-fluffy hairy. The pinnate leaf blades usually have three or five, rarely seven pinna leaflet. The leaflets are at a length of 2.5 to 6 centimeters and a width of 1 to 3 centimeters wide ovate or ovate-oblong with weak-rounded or broad-wedge-shaped base, more or less long tapered upper end and sharply sawn edge. The leaf top is shiny dark green and leaves are almost bare. The stipulesare fused with the petiole on most of their length. The free area of the stipules is rooted, having entire margins with pointed upper end and often glandular-fluffy hairy.
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