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| | Elko County Rose Garden |
 | | Reddish purple, thornless shoots, broadly oval, heavily serrated, grayish purple leaves. |
 | | Flowers "quickly becomes sepals and stamens, as the petals blow away faster than apple blossom." Great clusters of small hips decorate the bushes in the autumn. |
 | | Hips are very bristly, globular to oval medium sized and deep red in color when fully ripe." (Olds, 1998) 'Rosa pomifera duplex', also 'Wooley-Dod's Rose' medium pink semi-double, more free flowering (Vanderkruk, 2000) |
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