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A handsome scrambling shrub up to 2.5 m. tall, with erect or arching stems covered although scarcely densely so with long spreading white hairs interspersed with scattered or locally numerous amber-green glands. Prickles scattered, small, up to 3 mm. long, straight or abruptly decurved. Leaves imparipinnate (or the uppermost simple), 3–5-jugate (5–7(–11)-jugate on the turions); leaflets up to 7.5–9 × 3.5 cm., ovate to oblong-lanceolate, long drawn-out to an acute apex and with a shortly cuneate, rounded or ± truncate base, jaggedly doubly-serrated, the primary serratures saw-like, up to 5 mm. deep, covered above and below with rather long whitish hairs but usually more sparsely so and paler green beneath. Inflorescence consisting of axillary and terminal flowers, borne singly on pedicels 2–4 cm. long. Flowers (2–)2.5–3(–4) cm. in diameter when fully open. Calyx deeply divided; lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate with a caudate apex, 8–20 mm. long, connate for 3–4 mm. at the base, exceeding the petals. Petals white turning to pink, broadly ovate to subcircular. Carpels not more than 1 mm. long, produced “in hundreds.” Receptacle elongating, becoming ellipsoid-cylindrical, up to 2 cm. long (? more) when fully mature. Ripe fruit scarlet, glistening, edible.