It was in rose like bloom in May. Near the Visitor Center at Campbell Valley Regional Park in Langley, BC. I think it was planted many years ago ... Rather a large bush.
Like this ... but it's an uploaded photo from another site (Image Citation: James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org) I wasn't sure if my sighting was a multiflora since I didn't see any prominent thorns. But it was a huge bush ... at least 8 meters high.
I know ... it's in the parking lot behind the visitors center and growing intertwined with other bushes and trees. I was pretty amazed in May and no one I talked to knew what it was ...
Larger-growing Sec. Synstylae relations and other large-growing roses grow double that height and more. UBC David C. Lam Asian Garden has, unless they froze back recently 'Kiftsgate' roses way up tall native conifers. The original seedling, at Kiftsgate in Britain was said at one time to be 100' across. While in general a wild-living rose that looked like R. multiflora would be expected to be that species there are also garden forms derived from it present in this area. Garden roses growing without care along roadsides and at former habitations etc. are pretty common here. Precise identification of the specimen in question requires a look at all its anatomical features.
