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Dog rose
Rosa canina
The hedgerow rose — hips for winter vitamin C, petals for a cooling, fragrant cup.
Flavor
Hips are tart apple-tomato; petals are perfume and green tea, faintly honeyed.
Symptoms
cold, sore throat, irritable skin
In favor
Beautiful hedge
Against
Itchy hip hairs if unstrained
Grow lab
Yes
Days to harvest
Petals year 2; hips 500–700 days from a young shrub