question about a bush on our property

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OK, I have a question for Doc or Valerie or Bryan or Kellie or Mary or whoever

can answer this for me. We find a bush growing wild on our property that has

leaves like a rose bush. We didn't find it until just now and the flowers have

already died back so we don't know if the flowers looked like roses or not.

Where the flowers were at, though, there are now red berries growing. They are

oblong, and last night my husband tried eating one of them just to see how it

tasted. There were little seeds in it. He took the seeds out and took the pulp

out of the skin and ate just the pulp—so he didn't eat the seeds or the skin.

He said that it tasted like one of those sweetened vitamin c pills that you

find in the store. Have we stumbled on to rose hips????? If so, we are going

to pick all of those berries off that bush and get them inside pronto!! This

would be too good to pass up!

 

It has now been a year since we moved into our home—and we are having so much

fun this year! Hubby and I have found tons of apple trees and plum trees

growing wild around the area that we live, no one is taking care of them which

means they are all organic and we are the only ones interested in the fruit.

Hubby just today has picked 160 pounds of apples for me to make into applesauce

and can for the winter and he still has more he can get for me. The kids have

picked enough plums to give 5 canner loads of delicious sweet red plums. And

that doesn't count the purple plums that are not ready yet—I'll turn those in to

jam when they are ready. And there is an elderberry bush loaded with

elderberries! Hmmm—elderberry syrup for the cold season, elderberry jam………..my

soul, the Lord is so merciful and His blessings are so great!

 

Let me know what anyone thinks about our bush and the berries on it—if they

need to be harvested we will need to get them in before we lose them.

 

Becky

[Guest guest]

Short of being there to make a positive ID, your description certainly

sounds like rose hips. Enjoy and have fun

zoe

 

 

lynbes wrote:

> OK, I have a question for Doc or Valerie or Bryan or Kellie or Mary or whoever

can answer this for me. We find a bush growing wild on our property that has

leaves like a rose bush. We didn't find it until just now and the flowers have

already died back so we don't know if the flowers looked like roses or not.

Where the flowers were at, though, there are now red berries growing. They are

oblong, and last night my husband tried eating one of them just to see how it

tasted. There were little seeds in it. He took the seeds out and took the pulp

out of the skin and ate just the pulp---so he didn't eat the seeds or the skin.

He said that it tasted like one of those sweetened vitamin c pills that you

find in the store. Have we stumbled on to rose hips????? If so, we are going

to pick all of those berries off that bush and get them inside pronto!! This

would be too good to pass up!

>

> It has now been a year since we moved into our home---and we are having so

much fun this year! Hubby and I have found tons of apple trees and plum trees

growing wild around the area that we live, no one is taking care of them which

means they are all organic and we are the only ones interested in the fruit.

Hubby just today has picked 160 pounds of apples for me to make into applesauce

and can for the winter and he still has more he can get for me. The kids have

picked enough plums to give 5 canner loads of delicious sweet red plums. And

that doesn't count the purple plums that are not ready yet---I'll turn those in

to jam when they are ready. And there is an elderberry bush loaded with

elderberries! Hmmm---elderberry syrup for the cold season, elderberry

jam...........my soul, the Lord is so merciful and His blessings are so great!

>

> Let me know what anyone thinks about our bush and the berries on it---if they

need to be harvested we will need to get them in before we lose them.

>

> Becky

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[Guest guest]

Sounds like wild rose bush and the " berry " would be rose hips. Very beneficial.

It would help knowing " where you live " . But you can easily search the net for

pics and compare to see if this is what you have.

 

herbal remedies , " lynbes " <lynbes wrote:

>

> OK, I have a question for Doc or Valerie or Bryan or Kellie or Mary or whoever

can answer this for me. We find a bush growing wild on our property that has

leaves like a rose bush. We didn't find it until just now and the flowers have

already died back so we don't know if the flowers looked like roses or not.

Where the flowers were at, though, there are now red berries growing. They are

oblong, and last night my husband tried eating one of them just to see how it

tasted. There were little seeds in it. He took the seeds out and took the pulp

out of the skin and ate just the pulp—so he didn't eat the seeds or the skin.

He said that it tasted like one of those sweetened vitamin c pills that you

find in the store. Have we stumbled on to rose hips????? If so, we are going

to pick all of those berries off that bush and get them inside pronto!! This

would be too good to pass up!

>

> It has now been a year since we moved into our home—and we are having so much

fun this year! Hubby and I have found tons of apple trees and plum trees

growing wild around the area that we live, no one is taking care of them which

means they are all organic and we are the only ones interested in the fruit.

Hubby just today has picked 160 pounds of apples for me to make into applesauce

and can for the winter and he still has more he can get for me. The kids have

picked enough plums to give 5 canner loads of delicious sweet red plums. And

that doesn't count the purple plums that are not ready yet—I'll turn those in to

jam when they are ready. And there is an elderberry bush loaded with

elderberries! Hmmm—elderberry syrup for the cold season, elderberry jam………..my

soul, the Lord is so merciful and His blessings are so great!

>

> Let me know what anyone thinks about our bush and the berries on it—if they

need to be harvested we will need to get them in before we lose them.

>

> Becky

>