Tall Wild Rose is a common shrub rose, widely distributed, and
growing from 1500 m to all the way to 4000 m.
A shrub from 1-2 m high, with straight, slender, yellowish prickles. Leaflets
5-9, obvate or almost round, obtuse, grey-blue. Flowers born singly, usually
pink, with a white centre all entirely white, scented.
Fruit
bottle-shaped to globular, red. Native to the western Himalayas from the Pamir
in central Asia to Kashmir, Tibet and Afghanistan.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Ladakh.
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