Rosa eglantaria
Common name: Sweetbriar Rose, Eglantine Rose Family: Rosaceae Deciduous shrub, erect, to 8 ft (2.4 m), dense, much-branched, stems armed with large oval-based, recurved prickles ("thorns"). Leaves alternate, compound, 5-9 leaflets, each 1-3 cm long, ovate to rounded, margins doubly serrate, dark green and usually hairless above, downy below, aromatic, a sweet green apple or cider odor when bruised, especially in damp weather; paired stipules sharply pointed, about 1.3 cm long, margins finely serrate; rachis and petioles glandular-pubescent. Flowers mostly pink, sometimes white, 4 cm across, borne singly or 2-4 per cluster. Fruit (hip) orange to scarlet, ovoid to elliptical, smooth, 13-20 mm long, calyx persistent.