Showing posts with label thorns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thorns. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Rosa Multiflora











To be honest, I am not sure this next bush and close-up are of a "Rosa Multiflora". The bloom clusters are not as tight. But if not a multiflora, it's pretty close.



















(Recycle, as I am seeing all manner of wild rose -- and garden variety - pop out everywhere)
Wild Rose Bush (Rosa Multiflora)
First week of May, 2008

I've been taking pictures of blooming things for some time, but I have never seen as many wild “bush” roses that I have seen in this last week. I am not sure if that is because I never stopped to photograph them (they are a photographic challenge) or, if with recent rains there are just more of them.

Everywhere I look I am seeing bushes, hedges, and tendrils exploding with wild white roses.

As is, I am not sure if all of the rose covered bushes are of the same species, or simply family variations. The flowers at top appeared more clustered than those shown lower.

For more on wild rose groupings see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rosa_species

Friday, April 16, 2010

My Wild Arky Rose









Repost, from 2008.
As of 4/16/09, these blooms are out in force. In fact I think I could take an identical picture today, and have seen many such minature rose patches along the highways,
Wild "Arky" Rose.
All pics around April 24, 2008 -Conway AR (c) Kirk Jordan
I suspect there are a number of of rose sub-speciesthat are called wild rose... and this is one of them. The fully opened blooms are just a tad larger than a quarter -- and grow on thorny little brambles that arch, spray, and coil over the ground and small hedges.