Multiflora and its kin are easy to ID. They have fringed stipules. Gallicas don't.

And that's so "fringey," I thought for a minute it was Crested.

Thank you all so much!

Now I have a bit of a job ahead of me to remove the many many suckers...

Any thoughts on how to reduce this occurence, should I haul the whole plant out and replant at a higher depth--do you find Rosa Munda to be hardy enough to risk it? I would suggest my area may be more 6A than 5B. When I recieved the bareroot I did plant the bud union quite deep, as I wanted to make sure she survived.

Cece

Cece, I think that if you have "many, many" suckers already, then you have an uphill battle on your hands. Once an understock has surfaced and established significant above-ground growth, its nearly impossible to stop it. The odds are that it will recur indefinitely.

However, since you state that you have planted the bud union quite deep, the odds are in favor of 'Rosa Mundi' forming its own roots and escaping the understock entirely in the next few years. If that happens, then you should be able to dig suckers of 'RM' and move them elsewhere and establish them as a new plant, free of the understock.

Dig down to where the sucker is coming off the main root, and rip/tear it off. Don't cut it.

IME, deep planting discourages suckers. So I wouldn't dig it up and replant higher. Once they are ripped off, they shouldn't come back.

thanks again.

I had to dig it up completely to see what was what. The multiflora suckers were large, I'll include pictures below: thicker than my thumb in the first picture, the piece I'm holding! I ripped off the two of them (as carefully as one can "rip" off a huge piece of wood) and the other images show the remainder of rosa mundi... Any comments on the how the root area looks before I replant her? Specifically do i need to worry about the thick roots near the wound?

With regards to replant should I trim her top growth as she's had such a shock?

This is with me holding the actual huge thick multiflora sucker

Rosa mundi after the removal

close up of wound area

Thanks for having a look, all your help is much appreciated.

Cece