Do you have Japanese rose rise on your farm ? We do . It grows down in the holler near our pond . Sometimes Mom call for Uzzi and me down to to the holler to pasture , and we love nibbling Japanese rose rose flower petal . Yum ! But we have to be careful because the bushes have fully grown , wicked , recurved thorns ( ow ! ) , and we can only eat from the outside part because the thicket is too dense to push through .
Multiflora arise grow in 39 of the continental U.S. states . It ’s considered anoxious weedin 12 state of matter , where it must be moderate , and it ’s totally banned in Connecticut , Massachusetts and New Hampshire . That ’s because it maturate like a weed and chokes out native vegetation . And it ’s so darned hard to control !
Multiflora rose derive from Japan in 1866 to be used as rootstalk for cosmetic roses , and that was OK . In the thirties through the sixties , it was widely plant for eating away ascendency , as wildlife feed , in median strips of highways to form smash barriers , and as living fences . The U.S. Soil Conservation Service passed out take root cutting to landowners for free . Fourteen million thinning were planted in West Virginia alone and 20 million in North Carolina . That was before anyone realized how tight and prolifically it disperse . Then the plant take off . Oh my !
Multiflora rose is a burry perennial shrub that grows up to 15 foot tall and spreads wide to all sides . It has long , curve cane that dissemble as suckers , root wherever they touch the ground . And it propagates by semen , too . Each springiness , multiflora rose George Bush are report with bunch of teeny , five - petaled , white roses just 1/2 to 1 inch across . When the flower matures , it becomes a small , gruelling fruit called a rose hip that grows leathery come fall and ordinarily stay on on the industrial plant all wintertime — unless a athirst bird come along and snurfs it up . Up to 17,500 semen come from a individual cane every twelvemonth , and they stay viable for up to 20 long time . When boo eat the seeds , they go through the skirt intact ( in fact , this helps them germinate ) , so wherever the bird poops them out , a brand newfangled bush can develop .
However , not every wild rise you see is a baby rose arise . There are dozens of native wild rose specie in North America . Most of the others have pink , five - petaled flowers and few are as thorny as multiflora arise .
Multiflora roses are refractory — once they become comfortable on your farm they do n’t desire to leave . So if it set up housekeeping on your farm , seek to see it from the beginning . Ask yourcounty extension agentfor tips .
The best affair about baby rose mount is that it piss o.k. wild bird feed through the dusty wintertime months . People like those rose hips , too . you may crush them to make rose hip Camellia sinensis . And multiflora rise petals are yummy in salad !
