Rosa foetida bicolor - 'Austrian Copper'

This is a sport (naturally occurring difference) of one klnown as ‘Austrian Briar’. The flowers are bright, almost luminous orange-red. It was introduced in 1596. An upright shrub, to 5 feet tall, it has rich dark green stems that are heavily overlaid with mahogany-brown, and it has many large, light-green thorns, becoming brown with age. The single flowers are produced mostly singly, but generously, on short stalks in early summer. They smell unpleasant, which gives the rose its name.