#rosa multiflora

[gon-iii]

緑陰の気付き

遊歩道に咲く野茨。とても素朴な花。

[crippled-peeper]

Am I a good plant hobbyist? No. But do I take good pictures of plants? Also no

Here’s some of today’s rejects.

[sakaimekanae]

"Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon", 2025.

This work features the Japanese word "花鳥風月"(ka chou huu getsu), literally meaning "flowers, birds, wind and moon", which means the beauty of nature.

29.7 x 21 cm (original drawing's size)

FireAlpaca and ink on paper.

Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon by SakaimeKanae on DeviantArt

[rt0no]

[floralfumofridays]

Floral Fumo Fridays Winter Holidays Edition: Rose Hips 🌹 (Fruit of Roses, from Rosa multiflora)

So this was meant for last week and for winter solstice but I decided to just group the later holidays together. This is about the fruit moreso than the flower, and we will showcase what this flower looks like when it blooms in spring.

After she was done napping, Yuuka set off once more to solve the incident. However, when she woke up from her nap, there was snowfall everywhere! Winter had already begun, and this would mean less sunlight and more clouds and nighttime which is perfect for a former cave-dwelling youkai like Yuuka. Although, she still wants to change her nature. While it may seem like a long time to a human, to an ancient youkai like Yuuka, her nap times usually last years. Luckily, this nap only lasted for a couple of days.

She journeyed farther into Gensokyo, but she realized that there were red fruits on dormant thorny stems that piqued her interest along her path. She knew these to be rose hips which were already drying and rotting. Nonetheless, Yuuka could still use the seeds inside the hips to grow roses in her yard. She began to collect the hips, but smelled something foul and corpselike, she looked to the direction of the foul stench and came across a curious two-tailed cat youkai collecting the hips. This was no ordinary cat youkai, but a blazing kasha from the underground!

"A youkai who's alive?" "A kasha on the surface?" The kasha was surprised by Yuuka as much as Yuuka was surprised by the kasha. "Don't mind me, sis, there's just so many human and youkai corpses here on the surface.... and these rotten fruits right next to the cave too!" the kasha said as she collected many rose hips.

Yuuka thought of nothing but wanting to fight this sassy kasha, so when the cat went back to picking rotten rose hips, Yuuka tried to swing her umbrella at her.

The kasha turned around and greeted Yuuka who was about to swing her umbrella, "My friends call me Orin by the way, it's totes odd how there's so many corpses on the surface, y'know. There's even dead youkai...." Yuuka halted and Orin aimlessly wonders to herself, "Maybe there's a youkai out there who is rampaging around the surface! Attacking one too many humans.... Even attacking fellow youkai! If they're as powerful that they could cause such disaster like this, then maybe I should gather these up before I'm next!"

Yuuka lowers her stance and Orin takes a closer look at Yuuka then says, "Oh, you're still here? Do you want some of these deliciously rotten fruits, too?" Orin continues, "My mistress wanted me to collect fruits around the surface to celebrate some special day that's celebrated in the Outside World nowadays. She says it's supposed to be about sharing gifts to each other, so you can have them if you want, sis!" Orin hands Yuuka some of the rotten rose hips. "Of course, some of them we won't feast on. I was planning to gift some of them to my mistress so she will use the seeds for to grow some roses in our garden as a gift to her sister, too. She says roses are her sister's favorite flower!" Orin cheerily explained. "You have a garden?" Yuuka widened her eyes. Orin looks back at Yuuka and tells her, "Oh yes, we literally have a garden all the way in the underground. Maybe you should find shelter away from that youkai there and work in Chireiden! Although, you would still have to fight the oni in the city to get to our palace." Yuuka declined, "No thanks, I already got kicked out of a mansion I already owned in another cave somewhere else. I'll stick with my little garden on the surface." "It's like totally understandable, we only grow flowers that don't need too much sunlight. The ravens at our mansion are able to create a ball of light around the courtyard, but it's definitely not as good of a light as the actual sun." Orin said, "Anyways I should get going now, it was nice meeting you, sis. You should be careful about that youkai rampage on the surface," She walked away with her cart and moved onto another area with some fruits.

Yuuka looked at he rose hips that she received, and she had hardly paid attention to what the kasha had said to her. Other than the garden, something else that she said had interested Yuuka. Something about giving gifts? There's plenty of festivals like that that humans celebrate in the village, but youkai don't normally celebrate such things nor even give gifts to each other like that.

These are rose hips, they are the fruit of true roses, which is any flowering bush in the Rosa genus. This one in particular comes from Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora). Multiflora Roses are of course part of the rose family (Rosaceae) a family that includes many fruits that are enjoyed and used in cooking like apples, cherries, peaches raspberries, and strawberries. True roses are characterized by their sharp thorns and flowers often crossbred to have many different floral shapes. This species is a wild counterpart and ancestor to many cultivated roses and it is native to Japan and other regions of eastern Asia, but has become invasive elsewhere.

Like other fruits in the rose family such as raspberries, rose hips contain many antioxidants and are enjoyed for their high Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) contents. Although nutrient content slightly varies by species and cultivar, one tiny fresh rose hip can contain much more Vitamin C than an orange. Vitamin C is a water soluble (meaning that it is absorbed with water/hydration) produced endogenously by numerous plants and even mammals, but humans in particular have lost such an ability, so humans must consume foods with or take Vitamin C as needed. It has antioxidative effects and helps in the production and function of numerous types of white blood cells. Lack of Vitamin C can result in the historically fatal disease known as scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency), characterized by hair and tooth loss, weakened bones and tissue, internal bleeding and bruising easily. Many fruits and vegetables contain this vitamin, so it normally is not a problem to have a lack of Vitamin C.

Rose hips are found in many wild and cultivated Rosa species throughout the world, and they themselves have many poisonous lookalikes that bear fruit around a similar time. The ones shown here have already dried up and are not fresh. The way to tell the difference is the thorny stems, shape of the leaf and most importantly the flowers in spring. Rose hips usually bear fruit in later summer and fall. If you planted roses by yourself then it should be no surprise that when fall arrives they will grow these fruits once they are done flowering.

The flowers that bloom in spring and thorny stems of Multiflora roses themselves, however, also look similar to the flowers of Rubus (raspberry/bramble genus), another rose family bush. Although, the fruits of Rubus look much different than rose hips and usually bear fruit at an earlier time than rose hips. We will talk more about the flowers and other characteristics of Multiflora rose specifically at a later time.

Winter is a season where many plants have had their leaves shed and either die or become dormant. Winter is often seen as being the "first" season, but sometimes it's spring. Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon where one of the axes and hemisphere of the earth are tilted farther from the Sun and when this happens it is also known as the shortest day, with much less daylight and much more nighttime on the hemisphere that experiences this. The opposing axis and hemisphere experiences summer instead. As an example, in December winter will occur for the Northern Hemisphere while the Southern Hemisphere experiences summer. The later days slowly form back until it reaches an equal amount in spring or fall (equinox). This is the origin of the word "solstice," which also comes from the name Sol, the name of a sun god, and the sun is very important for plants. Winter solstice is also often seen as being the death and rebirth of various sun gods in many places.

There are some plants that bear fruit during the winter, but flowers are a rarity in this season until sometime later. What flowers could bloom in winter?

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Rosehips (Rosa spp., Rosaceae) are wild rose bushes with more than 100 species. Its fruits vary in colour and size, depending on the species

When is the Winter Solstice and what happens?

Winter Solstice has long marked a time of rebirth, behind it are fascinating astronomical events.

[elminx]

Walk With Me: 1/1/2023

Part of my personal superstition about the new year is that what I do on the first of January will have an impact on the entirety of the year ahead. With that in mind, my partner and I knew that we wanted to head out for a new year's walk. We both are deeply connected to the earth and ground best by being outside. Luckily, there is no shortage of places to get in a wonderful time in the woods nearby to where I live.

My partner had been wanting to take me to a semi-local old mineral mine that they found a while back while hiking with some friends. First, we approached from the cliffside which gave me a gorgeous view of the old stones of the mountainsides and my favorite of all of the evergreens, Eastern White Pine. I've written about Eastern White Pine a bunch in the past - it is a native to my area of the Northeast and I love to use it to make infused vodka. It's also quite good in all types of cooking - we've even added it to batches of fire cider in the past.

After scouting out the remains of the mine from above, we followed the trail around and down into the bowl below. This is a very old mine and it has been reclaimed by much of the vegetation that is native to this area (and some that aren't). I was particularly enamored with the beautiful Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) that was growing tall and proud in the meadow space.

Here in the bowl left by the former excavations, we were mostly following deer trails through the foliage. The deer had munched on the closest staghorn, leaving behind long strange spirals at the tops of the plants. Staghorn sumac is edible and has many medicinal properties. As a spice, sumac is popular in a lot of Middle Eastern cuisines. I've been meaning to harvest some but want to be certain to find a place where the sumac will be free of toxins before trying it out.

Staghorn sumac wasn't the only edible plant that I found nearby. We also found some Cattails growing along the frozen pond. I've been told that Cattails are more of a survival food and that they are considered to be an acquired taste (at best) but I still would like to try some if I can source them safely.

On the less native side, many of the plants were covered in our local menace: Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus). Bittersweet is extremely invasive in my area and every year it chokes out and brings down monstrous trees that have been alive for hundreds of years. It's sad to see Bittersweet so far out into the wilderness as we are here.

Sadly, it was not the only invasive that I found. Somehow, out in the middle of the woods on a game trail, we came across Rosa multiflora. This is a highly invasive Asiatic rose that is supposed to be all over my area but I rarely see it. I suspect that it is just less showy than Rosa rugosa. I almost didn't recognize it because its hips were so tiny!

In any case, it was nice to see some color in the world. January is filled with many shades of gray and brown that are only sometimes broken up by the omnipresence of our many evergreens. Though I appreciate our pines, spruces, firs, and mountain laurels - it's nice to see a splash of red in amongst the forest. It is a reminder that even in winter, food can be found. And that soon enough, the ground will thaw and the cycle will be reborn anew.

[foxfairyreads]

Rosa multiflora and red deadnettle. Invasive but certainly pretty!

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Multiflora rose hips! At least it's good for something, though sources suggest waiting until after a frost to gather these.