A handsome, viscid shrub, up to 4 m. tall.. Stems brownish-red, densely covered with stipitate and sessile glands intermingled with loose white hairs and scattered prickles.. Leaves imparipinnate, or trifoliolate within the inflorescence with the terminal leaflets petiolulate, the lateral ones sessile; leaflets ovate, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, up to 10.5 × 6.5 cm., often long-acuminate, the base rounded to cordate, sharply serrate or biserrate, with very acute teeth, green on both surfaces, pilose and glandular on both surfaces but more so beneath, the young leaves softly villous; rhachis hairy, glandular and prickly as the stems.. Inflorescence loosely paniculate, terminal and axillary, scarcely or not exceeding the leaves.. Peduncles densely stipitate-glandular.. Pedicels densely stipitate-glandular.. Flowers large, 2.5–3 cm. diameter, apparently somewhat drooping.. Calyx densely stipitate-glandular on the outer side, the calyx sometimes with basal pricklets, divided almost to the base into ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate lobes 2–2.5 cm. long.. Petals yellow or palely so, sometimes white, broadly ovate, 1.5–2 cm. long, obtuse.. Carpels pubescent.. Ripe fruit viscid, edible but rather acid, apparently yellow or orange becoming bright red or brownish-red at maturity.
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A prickly shrub. It grows 4 m high. The stems have hooked prickles. There are also brown sticky hairs. The leaves are compound with up to 7 leaflets. The leaflets are hairy. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are yellow to white. The fruit are 1.5 cm across. They are orange to red when ripe.
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