Rosa canina

Dog Rose at Watson, ACT

Rosa canina at Watson, ACT - 5 Mar 2019
Rosa canina at Watson, ACT - 5 Mar 2019
Rosa canina at Watson, ACT - 5 Mar 2019
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Identification history

Rosa canina 27 May 2019 BettyDonWood
Rosa canina 27 May 2019 BettyDonWood
Unidentified 27 May 2019 waltraud

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Photograph/s taken begin of March 2019 in the southern part of Justice Robert Hope Park (Watson Woodland) which is a Government offset site.

5 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:
   28 May 2019
I was able to blow up a fruit stalk. No sign of prickles or bristles.
waltraud wrote:
   28 May 2019
thank you for id Betty
I just realized that photo 2 doesn't belong here; it is a different plant and I will remove and upload extra (see the many prickles on the rose stem of photo 2).
the 3rd photo (which will become photo 2 after removal of current no 2) shows thorns at the bottom left-hand side.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   28 May 2019
Good point. Canina stems are not thorny.
Mike wrote:
   28 May 2019
What is now photo 2 is also https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/4223650.
Rosa canina is not as thorny as R. rubiginosa but can still have thorns. On R. canina fruit the drying sepals tend to be turned back and are not as persistent as on R. rubiginosa. I don't know if that is in any key.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   28 May 2019
Waltraud. Sorry to muck you around. Mike is quite right. Even though neither Plantnet nir Vicflora mention prickles on the stems, the Queensland weed site mentions scattered prickles, so we are back to the key characters of bristles/prickles on the flower (fruit) and leaf stalks. I cannot find any leaf stalks in the photos, but there is quite a good fruit stalk in photo 3.
https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/rosa_canina.htm

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  • 30cm to 1 metre Plant height

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  • Rosa canina Scientific name
  • Dog Rose Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Medium weed or pest
  • Up to 778.78m Recorded at altitude
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  • In flower
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