Rosa foetida - Persian Yellow Rose

Persian Yellow Rose is a shrub up to 3-4 m with yellow flowers solitary or 2-3, petals up to 3 cm long. Petals are yellow, sometimes suffused with red below. Sepals are usually with lateral lobes, rarely entire, dilated at tip, rising up or patent in fruit, persistent. Flower-stalks are smooth or with stalked glands. Styles are densely velvet-hairy, forming large, compact head. Double-flowered forms are also common. Young branches are chestnut-brown, hairless, often shining. Prickles are irregularly set on the stems, subulate, straw-colored, abruptly dilated at base, patent or declining. Leaves are compound with 7-9 leaflets, up to 2 cm long, elliptic or obovate, pointed or blunt, almost hairless on both sides, smooth or glandular, doubly or rarely simply sawtoothed. Stipules normally have long, divergent ears. Persian Yellow Rose is native to W. & Central Asia to W. Himalaya.