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Rosa canina

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Dog Rose
• Common Brier
• Dog Brier
• Brier Rose
• Wild Briar
• Hundsrose (German)
• Heckenrose (German) Rose de Haies (French)
• Rosa Selvatica (Italian)
• Rosa Sobac-ja (Russian)

Geographical Habitats

• Europe
• SW. Asia
• NW. Africa
• Syria
• Iran

Natural Habitats

• Hedgerows
• woodland
• thickets.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Deciduous thorny semi-scrambling shrub with 1-3 fragrant 55mm white or pale pink flowers, peduncles & calyx hispid, sepals glabrous on back tomentose within to 20mm long, pink petals 20mm long, 30mm long red or orange-red glabrous or bristly fruit, recurved prickles, serrated leaflets to 40mm long glabrous on both surfaces or villous beneath 5-7 foliolate

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Johns 1979
• Huxley 1992
• FONZ
• FOBI
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF