Covered in thorns, its foliage is glossy and has a wrinkled, leathery appearance, giving the species its name, "rugosa". Its leaves are composed of 7 leaflets.
Flowering: The flowers, sometimes solitary and sometimes in small clusters, range from purple to crimson. They are simple, large, fragrant, and occasionally rebloom at the end of the season. It produces large, round, flattened, red rose hips, similar in shape to small tomatoes.
Varieties at Frey house: it is propagated by stolons, which has allowed this variety to spread to different areas of the Frey house garden.
Text by Rafael Maino.
Covered in thorns, its foliage is shiny with a wrinkled leather-like appearance, which gives the species the name “rugosa,” made up of 7 leaflets. The flowers, sometimes solitary and sometimes in small clusters, are purple to carmine, large, simple, and fragrant, sometimes repeating flowering at the end of the season.
It produces large, red, round, and flattened hips (in the shape of small tomatoes).
It propagates by runners, a characteristic that has led this variety to spread across many areas of the Frey estate garden.
Text by Rafael Maino.
