Rosa spinosissima
L.
Spinose rose
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten fresh or dried, made into jam and drinks. The flower petals are used as a spice for sweets.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. In Kazakhstan is grows on mountain slopes. It can grow with fairly low rainfall. It grows in scrubby forest and beside rivers between 1,100-2,300 m above sea level. In Arboretum Tasmania.
Armenia, Asia, Australia, Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, North America, Russia, Siberia, Tasmania, Turkey, Türkiye, USA,
How to Identify
A shrub. It grows up to 2 m high. The branches have many straight thin thorns. The leaves are compound with 5-11 rounded leaflets. The flowers are white or yellow. They occur singly. The fruit are brownish-red to black. The fruit are high in tannin.
Other Information
It is sold in local markets.
Names & Synonyms
Kara kusburnu, Masreni
References (5)
- Dzhangaliev, A. D., et al, 2003, The Wild Fruit and Nut Plants of Kazakhstan, Horticultural Reviews, Vol. 29. pp 305-371
- Ertug, F, Yenen Bitkiler. Resimli Türkiye Florası -I- Flora of Turkey - Ethnobotany supplement
- Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 9
- Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 755
- Nanagulyan, S., et al, 2020, Wild plants and fungi sold in the markets of Yerevan (Armenia). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16:26
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