Talk:Rosa rugosa

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2019 and 9 April 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Maliks10. Peer reviewers: RWJinZhugEo.

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A note
Dear friends, I havn't time at the moment to add to this page as needed. This beatiful plant is also a serious invasive (environmental weed) in SE Australia. Specifcally it invades threatened grasslands around Melbourne, along with other shrubs alters the structure of the vegetation and ultmately the floristics. <> The upside is that in degraded vegetation it provides useful protection for birds from predators, namely exotic cats and foxes! --Jppigott 07:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No, the invasive one (at least according to the reference you supply) is Rosa rubiginosa which is a different species. The article there already said it is invasive in New Zealand; I added Australia. Kingdon 03:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Planting instructions?
I am searching for planting instructions and not having great luck. If anyone can provide them (add them to article?), that would be great. Thanks.--Kgerhard 21:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I know how to transplant them. Here on the Oregon coast they're moderately invasive and require regular attention to keep them from taking over a garden; I used to just dig them up, but started transplanting to a conservation project. What I don't know is if they can be propagated from cuttings; I'd appreciate if someone could find that. Dismalscholar (talk) 02:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Planting Instructions
I just read your question and immediately afterward found this article: http://www.hort.net/profile/ros/rosru/

They say that both hardwood and softwood cuttings can be done and give instructions for doing so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.65.100.2 (talk) 00:34, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Image gallery
I restored the image gallery to this article because it seems to me that readers who come to this article will find it more useful if images representing different varieties and life cycle stages of Rosa rugosa are present. WP:IG makes clear that random collections of images are not appropriate for Wikipedia articles (because Wikipedia is not an image repository), but that "the use of a gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images. The images in the gallery collectively must have encyclopedic value and add to the reader's understanding of the subject." It seems to me that these gallery images add value to the article that can't be had by text content on its own. DickClarkMises (talk) 15:36, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I moved the images illustrating different life cycle stages into the body of the article and relabeled the gallery as being of different cultivars. DickClarkMises (talk) 15:51, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, after thumbing through all the many commons images, I've changed my mind on the gallery question. From the article content, it isn't clear that any particular cultivars should be emphasized over others, so I scratched the gallery and kept the link to the Commons gallery. DickClarkMises (talk) 18:42, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Meaning of name
Shouldn't the literal meaning of "rosa rugosa" be included somewhere on this page? Rosekelleher (talk) 17:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It is, under the section 'Features'; however it could perhaps be stated in a more explicit fashion. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 18:01, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

61 European countries
The states  That seems like too many countries to me. A quick google of "how many countries are in Europe" tells me "44", while our list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe states that there are "about fifty". So where do the extra 10–15 come from? oatco (talk) 01:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You're entirely right and I have now corrected it to 16, which is the number provided in the ref. I assume the error in the wiki article was caused by a simple number switch (16 vs. 61). RN1970 (talk) 05:25, 1 June 2023 (UTC)