Sweet Briar Flower Pictures: Scientific Name:
Rosa rubiginosa
The soft, fragrant Sweet Briar of the family Rosaceae, is a deciduous European flowering shrub which grows 1-3 metres tall and consists of woody stems or canes with unequal hooked prickles/spines.
The clear-pink flowers consisting of 5 petals each, are 5-6 cm across and have a pleasant light fragrance. The Sweet Briar shrub flowers in summer then when the flowering is finished and the petals drop the plant harbours long lasting, bright-red hips that ripen in early winter. These hips have a high vitamin C content and are therefore used commerically in rose hip syrups.
Sweet Briar, Rosa rubiginosa, Lake Hawea, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
The delicate petals of the Sweet Briar flower have a pleasant light fragrance.
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