Shrubs, erect and tall. Stems ± flexuous, erect, to 20 dm, sparsely branched, ?distal branches and leaves glaucous, with purplish bloom?; bark becoming red-brown, glabrous; infrastipular prickles absent, internodal prickles sparse or absent, aciculi absent or erect, curved, or declined, subulate, 2–5 × 1.5–4.5 mm, base mostly broad, eglandular. Leaves 6–10.5 cm; stipules 13–16 × 1.5–2 mm, auricles flared, 2.5–5 mm, margins entire, eglandular or sparsely gland-fringed, surfaces glabrous, eglandular; petiole and rachis usually with pricklets, glabrous, eglandular; leaflets 5–7(–9), terminal: petiolule 10–20 mm, blade narrowly elliptic to ovate, 20–45 × 15–25 mm, leathery, base cuneate, sometimes rounded, margins 1-serrate, ?eglandular or few gland-tipped?, teeth 12–18 per side, eglandular, apex acute, abaxial surfaces pale green, sometimes dull red, glaucous, glabrous, eglandular, adaxial green-red or purplish, glaucous, dull, glabrous. Inflorescences corymbs, rarely panicles, 1–5-flowered. Pedicels erect, slender, (10–)15–25 mm, glabrous, stipitate-glandular; bracts 1 or 2, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 8–23 × 3–6 mm, margins entire, eglandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular. Flowers 2–3 cm diam.; hypanthium narrowly ovoid, 5.5–7 × 3.5–5.5 mm, glabrous, eglandular, neck ?purplish?, absent or 1 × 2 mm; sepals spreading, lanceolate, 15–25 × 1.5–2 mm, tip 10–15 × 1 mm, margins entire, sometimes pinnatifid, abaxial surfaces glabrous, mostly stipitate-glandular; petals single, deep pink to crimson-red, sometimes white basally, 8–14 × 5–6 mm; carpels 30–32, styles exsert 1–2 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.5–2 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (3 mm diam.). Hips dark brownish red to crimson red, globose, ovoid, or obovoid, 10–13 × 9–11 mm, fleshy, glabrous, eglandular, neck absent; sepals deciduous as hips mature, erect to spreading. Achenes basiparietal, 15–23, light tan to tan, 4–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm. 2n = 28.
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A shrub. It grows 1.5-2.2 m high and spreading 1.2-1.8 m wide. The stems arch over. The are purple red when young. The leaves are cool purple-blue. The flowers are pink and like stars. They occur in clusters. The fruit are hips which are red and occur in clusters.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs scarification.
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