One thing leads to another. While thinking about fake honey, fake pollen came to mind. Fake or not, pollen tastes so good I eat the whole jar in one day.
Pollen on Wikipedia lead to pollen tubes and species and a memory of pursuing species (none rose). The idea was, the most representative of a colony. The odd one was not considered. This probably happened with old time collectors also. Example: a couple years past two USA teen brothers where collecting tropical fish species (32 and counting). One went to the country of origin and the other could be taken to end up at the Smithsonian. I was doing the same thing the year before in a minor way and there was the odd one in a school. All of mine went back in the water and I didn’t think to ask what they did with the odd one.
Ask a kid what they remember of the future.
Yes, for me, Oklahoma still makes the best tasting cup of rose petal tea. Dark reds in general I guess… It seems yellows, no matter how good they smell, do impart an astringent taste. Pink Peace would probably make a good cup of tea as well. You can make a decent jam out of rugosa hips but the tiny hairs inside the hips, when you go to de-seed them, go everywhere and make you itch like you’ve rolled around in insulation- not fun.
Thanks for the tips Jon. I’m going to have to put ‘Oklahoma’ on my “need-to-get” list. I was wanting to get a nice, dark-red hybrid tea anyway.
As for those internal (or infernal) hip hairs, I know what you mean. I’ve always wondered what becomes of those when people make rosehip jams and teas. The thought of ingesting them has always scared me a little after experiencing that itch.
Yeah the tiny hairs both on rugosas and in their hips confuse me. I do not get their purpose. I can see how they would insulate the canes. Theyre especially apparent on hybrids like Linda Campbell, which is a rose that feels like elk horns to the touch. Some maples have the same mechanism on their winded seeds. If you touch them then you will wind up with hundreds of tiny hairs stuck inside your skin. Its awful. But I thought that seeds in general released types of lectins that induced the release of intestinal wall lining, which then forces the seeds out unabsorbed. So, why the hairs? Eh… roses are biologically odd critters lol.
I never tried roses as foods even though I stay away from systemics. If I were to use hips as a food item, I would use Rosa canina. They are abundant, easy to pick, somewhat large, sweet smelling and free of those hairs. They ripen to a bright orange-red and become “jammy” inside.
As for non-rose yet natural landscape foods – I really like pine tea. Its good. I used Austrian Black Pine.
Fragrant roses in the red/purple spectrum, such as Oklahoma, cannot be kept in a vase inside my home because I am highly allergic to the oils they disperse. I can be laying in my bed 3 rooms away from the vase and wake up with inflamed eyes and the taste of an odd sweetness in my throat. Their is something about that type of color and the fragrance often associated with them that my body reacts badly to. So I am sure there is something that makes them taste good to most people. They are very good at whatever it is that they are doing, haha.
For anyone who wants to try a rose tea,Zhena’s Gypsy rose tea is the best commercial rose tea I have tasted. Fantastic taste, beautiful package, high quality. This is not a commercial,but I have regularly purchased this tea, and if you are into something a little more sensory, her Coconut Chai is absolutely beyond all superlatives (but contains no rose). I am a tea drinker, and rose tea is really soothing-no caffeine, pretty color (I’m sure you guys really care about how pretty your tea is), and it is good for you. When I was in Japan this spring, all I purchased for myself was two teapots with infusers-I will have to dry some rose petals and try some home brew. The dried rosebuds of fragrant miniatures are used by some herbal tea co’s. as well as the rose hips of some varieties.
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