#Rosaceae

[francescointoppa]

Rosa selvatica (Rosa sp., Rosaceae) in fruttificazione

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Heteromeles arbutifolia

This shrub belongs to the Rose Family, and it is commonly referred to as the toyon. It is native to California, but it also extends northward into southwestern Oregon, as well as southward into northern Baja California. Its bright red berries are great in the fall and into the winter.

-Brian

[miyrumiyru]

Pretty red fruits & Cute yellow bunting

[faguscarolinensis]

Sorbus scopulina / Greene's Mountain Ash on the Echo Lake Trail on Mount Blue Sky in Evergreen, CO

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Small Burnet (Sanguisorba Minor)

[floralfumofridays]

Floral Fumo Fridays Winter Holidays Edition: Rose Hips 🌹 (Fruit of Roses, from Rosa multiflora)

So this was meant for last week and for winter solstice but I decided to just group the later holidays together. This is about the fruit moreso than the flower, and we will showcase what this flower looks like when it blooms in spring.

After she was done napping, Yuuka set off once more to solve the incident. However, when she woke up from her nap, there was snowfall everywhere! Winter had already begun, and this would mean less sunlight and more clouds and nighttime which is perfect for a former cave-dwelling youkai like Yuuka. Although, she still wants to change her nature. While it may seem like a long time to a human, to an ancient youkai like Yuuka, her nap times usually last years. Luckily, this nap only lasted for a couple of days.

She journeyed farther into Gensokyo, but she realized that there were red fruits on dormant thorny stems that piqued her interest along her path. She knew these to be rose hips which were already drying and rotting. Nonetheless, Yuuka could still use the seeds inside the hips to grow roses in her yard. She began to collect the hips, but smelled something foul and corpselike, she looked to the direction of the foul stench and came across a curious two-tailed cat youkai collecting the hips. This was no ordinary cat youkai, but a blazing kasha from the underground!

"A youkai who's alive?" "A kasha on the surface?" The kasha was surprised by Yuuka as much as Yuuka was surprised by the kasha. "Don't mind me, sis, there's just so many human and youkai corpses here on the surface.... and these rotten fruits right next to the cave too!" the kasha said as she collected many rose hips.

Yuuka thought of nothing but wanting to fight this sassy kasha, so when the cat went back to picking rotten rose hips, Yuuka tried to swing her umbrella at her.

The kasha turned around and greeted Yuuka who was about to swing her umbrella, "My friends call me Orin by the way, it's totes odd how there's so many corpses on the surface, y'know. There's even dead youkai...." Yuuka halted and Orin aimlessly wonders to herself, "Maybe there's a youkai out there who is rampaging around the surface! Attacking one too many humans.... Even attacking fellow youkai! If they're as powerful that they could cause such disaster like this, then maybe I should gather these up before I'm next!"

Yuuka lowers her stance and Orin takes a closer look at Yuuka then says, "Oh, you're still here? Do you want some of these deliciously rotten fruits, too?" Orin continues, "My mistress wanted me to collect fruits around the surface to celebrate some special day that's celebrated in the Outside World nowadays. She says it's supposed to be about sharing gifts to each other, so you can have them if you want, sis!" Orin hands Yuuka some of the rotten rose hips. "Of course, some of them we won't feast on. I was planning to gift some of them to my mistress so she will use the seeds for to grow some roses in our garden as a gift to her sister, too. She says roses are her sister's favorite flower!" Orin cheerily explained. "You have a garden?" Yuuka widened her eyes. Orin looks back at Yuuka and tells her, "Oh yes, we literally have a garden all the way in the underground. Maybe you should find shelter away from that youkai there and work in Chireiden! Although, you would still have to fight the oni in the city to get to our palace." Yuuka declined, "No thanks, I already got kicked out of a mansion I already owned in another cave somewhere else. I'll stick with my little garden on the surface." "It's like totally understandable, we only grow flowers that don't need too much sunlight. The ravens at our mansion are able to create a ball of light around the courtyard, but it's definitely not as good of a light as the actual sun." Orin said, "Anyways I should get going now, it was nice meeting you, sis. You should be careful about that youkai rampage on the surface," She walked away with her cart and moved onto another area with some fruits.

Yuuka looked at he rose hips that she received, and she had hardly paid attention to what the kasha had said to her. Other than the garden, something else that she said had interested Yuuka. Something about giving gifts? There's plenty of festivals like that that humans celebrate in the village, but youkai don't normally celebrate such things nor even give gifts to each other like that.

These are rose hips, they are the fruit of true roses, which is any flowering bush in the Rosa genus. This one in particular comes from Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora). Multiflora Roses are of course part of the rose family (Rosaceae) a family that includes many fruits that are enjoyed and used in cooking like apples, cherries, peaches raspberries, and strawberries. True roses are characterized by their sharp thorns and flowers often crossbred to have many different floral shapes. This species is a wild counterpart and ancestor to many cultivated roses and it is native to Japan and other regions of eastern Asia, but has become invasive elsewhere.

Like other fruits in the rose family such as raspberries, rose hips contain many antioxidants and are enjoyed for their high Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) contents. Although nutrient content slightly varies by species and cultivar, one tiny fresh rose hip can contain much more Vitamin C than an orange. Vitamin C is a water soluble (meaning that it is absorbed with water/hydration) produced endogenously by numerous plants and even mammals, but humans in particular have lost such an ability, so humans must consume foods with or take Vitamin C as needed. It has antioxidative effects and helps in the production and function of numerous types of white blood cells. Lack of Vitamin C can result in the historically fatal disease known as scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency), characterized by hair and tooth loss, weakened bones and tissue, internal bleeding and bruising easily. Many fruits and vegetables contain this vitamin, so it normally is not a problem to have a lack of Vitamin C.

Rose hips are found in many wild and cultivated Rosa species throughout the world, and they themselves have many poisonous lookalikes that bear fruit around a similar time. The ones shown here have already dried up and are not fresh. The way to tell the difference is the thorny stems, shape of the leaf and most importantly the flowers in spring. Rose hips usually bear fruit in later summer and fall. If you planted roses by yourself then it should be no surprise that when fall arrives they will grow these fruits once they are done flowering.

The flowers that bloom in spring and thorny stems of Multiflora roses themselves, however, also look similar to the flowers of Rubus (raspberry/bramble genus), another rose family bush. Although, the fruits of Rubus look much different than rose hips and usually bear fruit at an earlier time than rose hips. We will talk more about the flowers and other characteristics of Multiflora rose specifically at a later time.

Winter is a season where many plants have had their leaves shed and either die or become dormant. Winter is often seen as being the "first" season, but sometimes it's spring. Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon where one of the axes and hemisphere of the earth are tilted farther from the Sun and when this happens it is also known as the shortest day, with much less daylight and much more nighttime on the hemisphere that experiences this. The opposing axis and hemisphere experiences summer instead. As an example, in December winter will occur for the Northern Hemisphere while the Southern Hemisphere experiences summer. The later days slowly form back until it reaches an equal amount in spring or fall (equinox). This is the origin of the word "solstice," which also comes from the name Sol, the name of a sun god, and the sun is very important for plants. Winter solstice is also often seen as being the death and rebirth of various sun gods in many places.

There are some plants that bear fruit during the winter, but flowers are a rarity in this season until sometime later. What flowers could bloom in winter?

[slouchingwriter]

Embracing the colour of my beloved Scully & my not so beloved rosacea

[evermoortarot]

I really wish I wouldn’t get told that a decision I make is wrong due to common beliefs that have not been deeply researched.

I recently went on a mostly fruit diet with no animal products because I want to heal my rosacea, which I discovered is linked to many autoimmune diseases, one of the most prevalent in my family is type 2 diabetes.

Upon doing research about skin problems and why they manifest, I came across information about the kidneys and poor filtration through the liver which leads to waste being taken out on the skin if your organs are not working together to remove the waste normally.

I did my research to understand what could work to finally heal my rosacea since it is so deeply misunderstood and judged. All my life I’ve been criticized because of it until I got older and stopped caring so much. But more than just aesthetic purposes, I want to heal my body from the inside out and it causes so much anger for me at times when I open up about these choices I’m making to better myself and I get told I’m not consuming enough protein or that I need to eat meat or eggs or whatever it may be that common media shares.

Our biology closely resembles frugivores, not carnivores. The only way we “safely” consume meat and animal products is by cooking, pasteurizing, or doing some sort of process to make it edible. That, to me, doesn’t make any sense. We get told to eat fruits and vegetables when we’re sick because they heal so wouldn’t it make sense to consume food we know to be healing most of the time?

How can we use it as medicine and then turn around and say “oh you can’t eat too much fruit because of the sugar” as if simple fruit sugar is equivalent to processed refined sugar… also, all our cells need sugar. Our body runs on glucose… which is sugar. Literally everything we consume gets transformed into glucose. Insulin gets released into the bloodstream to help transport glucose to our organs so we have energy and can function. So even foods that are low in sugar get turned into glucose… which again, is sugar. Processed sugar, like any processed food, is bad for you. It is not the same as eating raw fruit - the food the Earth created for us to consume. (Is it really that surprising that the food we can naturally consume is the most healing food for us? It’s almost as if our biology, which resembles frugivores in nature, is made for the consumptions of fruits. Amazing.)

This whole idea that protein is everything was not emphasized until the last 1000 years or so. Protein was not emphasized as the most important source of sustenance for all time. Fruits and vegetables were. There are entire cultures that thrive off of fruits and vegetables and do not struggle with the same level of disease as we do.

It’s so annoying that veganism or any sort of diet with a strong focus on fruits and vegetables gets criticized so much. I’m not pushing my choices on anyone and I wish their choices didn’t get pushed on me, especially coming from people who are currently struggling with health issues and are trying multiple protocols that are not working. It doesn’t make sense to take advice from someone else who is trying to figure it out and is not succeeding yet I’m being criticized personally for taking advice from sources who have healed themselves and others.

No one will know my body better than me. I have tried to get assistance from doctors and dermatologists. None of them have helped. Some have even made things worse by giving me medications that suppressed my symptoms for a few weeks only for them to come back stronger and then I got prescribed a more intense medication with tons of side effects. If I cannot trust in myself and intuitively listen to my body, then I will never heal. My body is my own. My choices are my own. Feel free to judge them when I am not around but keep your negativity to yourself. I’ve only being doing this for two days and I feel so much better, my digestion is better, and my rosacea is not flaring up. That cannot be a coincidence. Please stop listening to mass media and do your own research to heal your body and mind.

[stoptheworld-please]

[syngoniums]

Crab spider on Souvenir de la Malmaison.

[francescointoppa]

Lauroceraso (Prunus laurocerasus L., Rosaceae)

[heather-rajendran]

Wood avens (Geum urbanum) photo I took 12/05/2024, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

[faguscarolinensis]

Rosa x 'Madame Joseph Schwartz' / 'Madame Joseph Schwartz' Hybrid Tea Rose at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[drhoz]

#2680 - Acaena anserinifolia - Silverweed Bidibid

AKA hutiwai, and piripiri, Acaena pusilla and Acaena viridior. The binomial is derived from the resemblance to Argentina anserina, also known as silverweed or silver cinquefoil.

Another Acaena species. This one is abundant on all the Aotearoan islands, from lowland to subalpine forest margins and in shrublands. It's also naturalised on the Auckland and Campbell Islands.

Queenstowm, Aotearoa New Zealand

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Prunus sp.

03-AUG-2023

Melbourne, Vic

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Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca Rosaceae

Photographs taken on June 18, 2023, at Purdon Conservation Area, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada.