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Dog rose
📍 5905 Old Osborne Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23231, USA
🗓 Season: September · October · November
🔍 When is it ripe?
Oval, bright red to orange-red hips. Ripe when uniformly red and slightly soft. Excellent for rosehip syrup. Always remove the irritating inner seeds.
Many dog rose bushes in the South side of the VA Capital Trail west of mile marker 49. Petals (collected before blossoms open) are used to treat various stomach ailments. Hips (ripe fruit) are an astringent and high in Vitamin C. Remove toxic seeds if preparing a jam or marmalade.
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