Rosa villosa, L.

35. R. villosa L. View in CoL , Sp. PI. 491 (1753) View Cited Treatment

( R. pomifera J. Herrmann ).

Compact shrub up to 1-5 m. Stems with short internodes, not pruinose. Prickles slender, long, straight, somewhat inflated at the base, scarcely decurrent. Leaflets 5 -7,30-50(-60) x 16-30 mm, oblong-ovate to broadly elliptical, biserrate, pubescent to tomentose on both surfaces, often densely glandular beneath, conspicuously bluish-green, with a resinous smell; teeth glandular. Pedicels 5—10(—15) mm, about as long as the fruit, stipitate- or setose-glandular. Sepals erect and persistent after anthesis. Petals 20-25 mm, pink. Disc narrow. Styles lanate. Fruit 10- 20 mm, globose to pyriform, densely stipitate-glandular, dull red. C. & S. Europe, extending northwards to the Netherlands. Al Au Bu Ga Ge G r He Ho Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W) [Cz Da No Rs (B) Su].