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Rosa rugosa
The hips are large, 2–3 cm diameter, and often shorter than their diameter, not elongated; in late summer and early autumn the plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.
Audubon in Milford, CT
Spotted on Aug 3, 2013
Submitted on Aug 4, 2013
5 Comments
Nice pic of rosehip :)
Hello Christine :)
Rose hips are great, but they are more used in some cultures than others. Your spotting of wild rose (dog rose) is coneected to this spotting of the hips. Here is a link on what you can do with them if you want to explore more ... http://gardening.about.com/od/rose1/f/Ro... Best regards
Thanks Eliese and DerrickLK! Do you think that the flower spotting I have here: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/360... is from the same plant? They were growing together, but the vegetation was so dense and prickly, and I just assumed that there were 2 different plants...But, now I'm not sure if this is 2 different spottings or only one.
It's a rosehip, from a wild rose bush
Looks like a species of rose. That fruit is a rose hip and the prickly stem is a common feature of rose plants.