Talk:Rosa multiflora

Thornless
This is not the case. Multiflora rose is thornless, and is used as root stock for almost all nursery roses.

About thorns
Actually, multiflora rose is known to have thorns when matured. Looking at websites off of a Google search for "multiflora rose fact sheet," almost every page says something like this: "Multiflora roseis a thorny perennial shrub..."

In my experience, about 1 out of 20 wild specimens are thornless or nearly so. Most commonly, it is quite well-armed.


 * I grew up with tons of wild multiflora, it is most definatly NOT thornless. But one of the main roses used as rootstock to other roses is Dr. Huey which is classified as "thornless or nearly thornless". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.144.48 (talk) 00:14, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Pictures
Please add pictures of the leaves and the non-flowering bush.-96.237.1.158 (talk) 21:00, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * There are some leaf images in Commons (now linked). However, this species is quite variable, and the genotypes that I know as a weed in North America look a bit different from the wild plants in Japan, especially in the leaves and the size of the flowers (smaller here). Nadiatalent (talk) 14:04, 22 April 2012 (UTC)