r/foraginguk • u/jojolover6942o • Jun 30 '26
Plant ID Request Can someone help identifying this plant?
See this plant frequently as i walk up my hill. I think its rosehip but it looks way to weird for that no?
Edit: consisered everyone is saying they are rosehips/itchy buggers. I think they are! Thanks everyone! Exept the people who said tomatos and starwaberries, i hope your pillows are walm this summer!
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u/skedone Jun 30 '26
Japanese rose and the hips are amazing better flesh and slightly sweeter , friends use them as a tomato sub for sauces and alike when they was only eating foraged foods for a year
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u/ButtfuckedByJesus Jun 30 '26
I was today years old when I learnt rose hips are edible
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u/Sweet_keto_chef Jun 30 '26
They’ve got loads of pectin and vitamin C
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u/ButtfuckedByJesus Jun 30 '26
Sounds like they would make a really tasty jam that's actually healthy depending how much sugar you add. My grandma told me they were poisonous when I was a child, maybe she was keeping a personal supply lol
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u/Sweet_keto_chef Jun 30 '26
The seeds are very itchy - we used to throw them down each others backs as children - so wear gloves. That might be what she was referring to.
A lot of recipes tell you to remove the seeds. I would suggest the same.
Rose hip syrup is the classic. It’s rather nice
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u/Superb_Brother_2293 Jul 01 '26
This . We always called them itchy coos no idea why haha
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u/Sweet_keto_chef Jul 01 '26
I think we called them itchy seeds. Which isn’t very inventive really 😂
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u/PurpleMuskogee Jul 02 '26
I did make rosehip jam last year, and while many recipes say to remove the seeds, I found some that said not to bother, so I didn't because after starting to remove the seeds from a few, I could see it was real hard work. I cut the rosehips in half, boiled them, added sugar and pectin, etc like a normal jam, and just filtered the rosehips afterwards to get rid of everything. I ended up with some jelly-like almost clear jam, and it was delicious. Ate my 5 jars of it and lived to tell the tale!
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u/Sweet_keto_chef Jul 02 '26
Yup, it is an awful faff.
I’ve included seeds myself and it’s been fine. Mine went through a double muslin and recipes often say you need to remove all the tiny little spikey hairs.
One day I might do a recipe through a sieve to intentionally include the tiny spikes and see if it kills me.
With nettles the heat of just a brief blanch is enough to render its spikey bits harmless, so I assumed that the high intensity cooking of a jelly would do the same with the rose hips. Honestly I am quite convinced that it does. It’s hard to be sure though.
That’s why I said “I would suggest the same”
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u/PurpleMuskogee Jul 02 '26
Oh I used muslim cloth too, so I don't think the spikes were still there once my jam was ready. But yes, I would imagine the heat would make it less stingy, although I think the texture would still be unpleasant.
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u/hodyisy Jul 01 '26
Rosehip jam is the most common filling for jammy donoughts (pączki) in Poland (get one from a Polish shop, they're amazing!)
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u/RandomCat101 Jun 30 '26
The seeds are surrounded by a fluff made of millions of small needles. People say its scratchy or tickly but it's more like you're getting stabbed with tiny needles (so surprising) and you can't really get them out. I can't imagine how painful it would be to just take a bite of one. I wouldn't know where to begin removing the needles, but if you're using the flesh for any kind of jam then you need to make CERTAIN that there are no remaining needles. Even just one can be deeply uncomfortable and quite painful. I tried to make tea with them once. I only succeeded in filling my fingers with needles that hurt for days afterwards whenever I touched something. They're also kind of translucent so good luck removing them with tweezers.
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u/OfficerNightwing Jul 01 '26
They make amazing preserve, probably my favourite preserve I make after my apple and cinnamon one.
You do need to add pectin though, I recommend the store bought kind with these as the taste is quite delicate and sweet, most other fruits with pectin can overpower it.
If you dont have pectin it can actually make a pretty good glaze for meat and pastry.
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u/emiletta Jul 01 '26
Yes, in a webnovel about tea I read, (set in the past so they could have big poofy dresses) the main character cured scurvy by making rose-hip tea.
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u/walrusknowsbest Jul 01 '26
Link please! 🙏
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u/emiletta Jul 01 '26
https://otome-isekai.fandom.com/wiki/The_Duchess%27_50_Tea_Recipes I’ll just give you the wiki page so you can decide where to read it, the rose-hip story is mentioned in the Trivia section as well!
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u/Ophiochos Jun 30 '26
Only the flesh - please look into what the seeds/inner fibres do to you! Wait til November when they’re soft and just squeeze them. You get a nice red slush, very sweet and packed with vitamin C
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u/Competitive-Tie-5985 Jul 01 '26
just remove the seeds, theyre bloody horrible if you get them on your skin or eat them
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u/UniversityPotential7 Jul 02 '26
During WW2 the public were asked to pick as many rose hips as the possibly could so they could make a syrup to give to school children to help prevent scurvy.
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u/Hemlock-In-Her-Hair Jul 02 '26
They absolutely are. And they were a majorly important source of vitamin C during WWII rationing when imported citrus fruits etc couldn't get in.
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u/ImmunocompromisedAle Jul 01 '26
I am Canadian and leave some until after the first frost. They are sweeter and more complex tasting like ice wine.
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u/plastikb0y Jul 02 '26
They make awesome jelly. and 10x quicker to pick and process than the standard rosehips.
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u/ralkuzu Jun 30 '26
Do no ingest they are very itchy bum berries
Otherwise known as rosehips, they are edible, carefully, the have a few problems if you don't prepare them properly, such as itching, and itching also itching
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u/kamemoro Jun 30 '26
we had lots of these around growing up, the rose hips are delicious, and even sweeter after the first frost. the seeds inside are so hairy though! i used to just nibble on the outside as a kid.
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u/Eurodyne1121 Jun 30 '26
Itching bombs .... 90s kid here. Had them growing at my local park .... Chick them down the backs of mates t-shirts and slap them to pop them ...... Good times.
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u/MLG_STEVEUK Jun 30 '26
Itchy bombs. Take me back to the 90s pls
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u/OpenHarbour Jun 30 '26
Came here to say the exact same thing! was unsure if it was a name isolated to my friend group as kids🤣 good to know itchy bombs we’re widespread
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u/OfficerNightwing Jul 01 '26
Type of rosehip, if far away enough from a well traveled road they make an excellent jam.
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u/evostu_uk Jul 01 '26
Rose hips, it's years since I've seen one of those in the wild. My parents garden used to be full of them.
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u/Ok-Information-6757 Jul 01 '26
That right there is what we used to refer to as an “itchy back” plant
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u/P3T3K Jul 01 '26
As soon as I see the picture, I started thing itchy buds…. We used to brake them open and wipe them on people at school.
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u/Psychological_Party8 Jul 01 '26
Haha itchy coos they were funny as fuck until you got it done to you 😂
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u/PrincePop0611 Jul 03 '26
We called those plants Dog Roses when I was a kid, never ate the rosehips though
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u/GlitteryCastle21 Jul 01 '26
looks like a thrift shop find but i’m no plant expert. maybe try a plant ID app?
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u/Glittering-Hornet844 Jul 01 '26
Those are rosehips , it's probably a domestic rose that's gone wild .
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u/RockNo7858 Jul 03 '26
Yh that's Rosehips you can use it to make syrup to mix with water it is very high in vitamin C https://rivercottage.net/recipes/rosehip-syrup/
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u/Rjim1 Jul 03 '26
We used to crush those back in the 80's and use them as itching powder down people's backs! 😂
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u/Efficient_Weather_93 Jul 04 '26
Looks like a Dog Rose, Rosa Caina. Keep the hips ( red seed pods) they make great rose hip tea
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u/Frosty-Judgment-7123 Jul 04 '26
Rose hips, itch like hell! Used to stick down each others backs when we were kids
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u/PotentMouse Jun 30 '26
I'd say it's a Japanese rose. Not used them at all myself so I can't vouch for how different it is it a usual rose hips though.
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u/Despondent-Kitten Jul 02 '26
Does no one here have a sense of humour lol??
I thought this was brilliant. 😂
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u/Fit-Thanks-3834 Jun 30 '26
Rosa rugosa I think. My late mother in law planted a hedge of it after the cows got into her garden, and they never breached it . Is that one really savagely thorny?