A vigorous scrambler with vicious hooked thorns can reach 12 metres in height...and ours is climbing a tree from the Himalayas - a large cedar tree. Here is a small sample of
it in bloom. At present, in our autumn, there are bunches of vermilion oval-shaped hips extending from each cane. As one drives in our front gate this is what we see in spring.
Discovered circa 1823