Rosa moyesii 'Sealing Wax'

I'm not keen on pruning this rose!

I can see why

Ouch 🌹

Ouch 😳

Wow

Deffo looks like rugosa. Google it @tiggrx see what you think

@robbiec it's not a rugosa though I agree the spines are similar.

Mighty prickly 🌹

Ouchhh!!!

Eek. Triffid!

Wow it look like a tree I have in Brazil 😀

#ouch

@tiggrx looks like plain rosa rugosa to me. vicious bugger but takes a serious hack well.

@robbiec no, leaves and flowers both very different to rugosa. Flowers are much smaller, leaves not rugosa and it has long slender pendulous hips.

@robbiec that should say 'leaves not rugose'

@tiggrx ok. cool. Flowers matched & thorns matched.

Flagon shaped like Moyesii hips? @tiggrx

@RicardoListeretti yes very like moyesii hips

Interesting 🤔 any scent to the foliage?

@RicardoListeretti not that's I've noticed, certainly not strongly like a Sweet-briar.

I reckon it's Moyessi "Sealing Wax' or slightly less common Moyessi 'Highdownensis' :)

@RicardoListeretti thank you! I think 'Sealing Wax' looks like a good match. This one has been puzzling me for 3 years.

A very refined rose anyway - I really wish I had room for a few species roses and their hybrids. I've only got Rosa Glauca, which I grow for the grey foliage and hips :)

@RicardoListeretti I have a couple of other species roses (including another unidentified). Rosa glauca is a lovely plant. I remember seeing it wild in the Pyrenees, it's always odd finding familiar garden plants wild!

This rose was already here when I moved in. Does anyone know which it is? I was thinking possibly either a form of Rosa moyesii or R. sweginzowii.

#plantID

Puzzled by the foliage - maybe R. complicata.

@RicardoListeretti thanks for the suggestion but it's not Complicata.

Gorgeous ☺