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42itous ([personal profile] 42itous) wrote2012-04-08 09:25 am
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What's this?
red rose-like flowers on a shrub

[identity profile] moechus.livejournal.com 2012-04-08 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be my guess also. Possibly a wrinkled rose or a pasture rose?

[identity profile] 42itous.livejournal.com 2012-04-08 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely not a wrinkled rose -- those are your basic beach roses, like in the Porter Square parking lot, and they seem to always be the same pink color; not mention that they have larger, more delicate petals.

Pasture roses have a little more variation in color, but I still don't see this deep, dark red. Then again, I'm looking at the first hundred or so results in Google Image, so I may be missing something.

[identity profile] moechus.livejournal.com 2012-04-09 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
My guesses were based at a quick glance at Peterson's Field Guide to Wildflowers (1968 ed.), which doesn't mention quinces. I should get a new edition.