*Rosa rubiginosa

Family Rosaceae

Sweet Briar

Erect or scrambling prickly shrub, crushed foliage with sweet apple-like scent.

Flowers: Pink, October – January.

Fruit: Large red swollen cup (hip) 15 – 20 mm long. Fruit reportedly bird dispersed.

Seed: Many achenes inside fruit.

Gallery images: seed, seedling, rootstock, resprout

Ecology

• Native of Europe.
• Weed of disturbed sites, roadsides.
• Rare weed at the Australian Botanic Garden.
• Resprouts after fire.

Asterisk * indicates exotic species naturalised at the Australian Botanic Garden.