Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 570/87
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
19-DEC-1987
Start date:
1987-12-19
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated collection of old roses. Labelled as this cultivar.
Notes:
`Single cherry'. Shrub. Shoots to c. 2m long, soon sprawling, not obviously suckering like most R. pimpinellifolia. Shoots, very numerous dark red prickles.Leaflets not shining. Flowers single,scarcely fragrant, shining crimson inside rose and dull outside;petals c.3x3 cm. Young fruit globular, dark & glossy.