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I have never heard the common name used! People seem to either know it as rugosa rose, rosa rugosa or just as "that rose along the roads near the ocean". E.C.

More names found on a Japanese website: Hedgehog Rose, Chinese Rose

Want to hear Rosa rugosa pronounced?to a sound file (originally from The Gardener's Library)

This is NOT a native plant. The rosa rugosa was introduced from Asia.

This is our Rosa rugosa in early July. Notice the large hip (the fruit that contains the seeds). The octopus like arms coming off the end of the hip are the flower's sepals which remain after the petals fall.

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The garden also has Rosa rugosa alba.....the white version. Alba means white and you will often see it plant names.

 

 

 

 

Often used to stabilize beaches and dunes, this rose is a familiar sight in the northeast.

 

 

 

 

The hips can be gathered when ripe and a tea made from them. The hips contain more vitamin C than oranges!

This hip is half ripe now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Study pointers:

• Observe the leaf. Do you know why it is called the Wrinkled Rose now? Find other kinds of roses growing in town and look at their leaves. Compare them to the Wrinkled Rose. How many rose plants have leaves like the Wrinkled Rose?
  
• books on herbs from the library will tell you more about making teas from plants
  
• Internet searches on "beach conservation" will find many articles. Solving that problem is tricky and there are many plans...some work, some don't but are used anyway. Find out what is being done, and why.

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