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Wild or Dog Rose - Rosa canina

Scrub and hedgerow shrub growing to 3m (10ft) with long arching branches bearing very sharp curved thorns. Widespread and most well known of the wild roses, but most common in the south.

Pinnate leaves of five to seven hairless leaflets, ovoid to elliptical in shape with serrated edges, flowers of pale pink appearing June to July ripen to red fruits or "hips"in the autumn. Related to R. dumetorum, having hairy leaflets.

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