This cultivar is listed as diploid in the paper 'Pollen diameter and guard cell length as predictors of ploidy in diverse rose cultivars, species, and breeding lines'
Very hardy and invasive. Lots of prickles on the stems. Smells like citrus blossoms. One of the first to bloom here in south central Alaska with occasional re-bloom later. Large, single blooms and sets hips. It gets to be about 6' tall here.
please tell me more! The bloom is rugosalike the leaves like a musk,,like Darlow's Enigma, not showy, not rugose,,,,it has fearsome thorns and reddish canes and is already over my head and suckering amok in a sunny sandy place!
