Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not until World War II were rose hips tested as a cure for children with scurvy symptoms in Britain due to Nazi blockades, proving ...

The rose has long been regarded as the “queen of flowers,” revered for its fragrance and beauty. But less lauded are the orange and red hips, or seedpods, that form after the flowers fade. And that’s ...

Wild roses, rugosa roses and even cultivated roses that were left unpreened after their last bloom will sport a shiny, usually dark orange-red colored rose hip. Some might know it as a rose haw, while ...

If you have roses in your landscape, then you probably are enjoying the rose hips this time of year. Rose hips are the swollen ovary of the pollinated rose flower. Rose hips can be pea size to 1 inch ...

Rose hips are small and scattered, they take time to gather, and they may be on thorny bushes. But their pure, wild flavor are appreciated especially in winter. Rose hips are the fruits of the rose; ...

Most rose fanatics grow roses for their flowers, but the more in love with roses you fall, the more their ornamental hips become just as exciting and hotly anticipated as the flowers themselves.

I have always grown roses for their large, red, berrylike fruit known as the hip. It forms in the wake of a fertilized flower. During World War II, the British discovered that rose hips contain more ...

The rose has long been regarded as the “queen of flowers,” revered for its fragrance and beauty. But less lauded are the orange and red hips, or seedpods, that form after the flowers fade. And that’s ...