SC - OOP-OT-Life Bites

[Elaine Koogler]

Actually, we have a multitude of wild roses growing on our property...and they
are all white.  They are very small blossoms, maybe an inch and a half across at
most, with a lovely yellow center.  They grow on long canes, and are often
mistaken for blackberry bushes.

Kiri

Dana Huffman wrote:

> 1: The Real Academia's 1734 dictionary describes this as a
> "small white rose with a musk scent, a kind of bramble".
> My recent edition of  Maria Moliner gives the scientific
> name Kerria japonica for this plant, but it also listed
> "mosqueta silvestre" as wild or dog rose.  Kerria japonica
> sounds like it might not be native to Europe, so I'm
> inclined to think this is wild rose, except the only wild
> roses I've ever met are pink.
>