A field of R. minutifolia on March 24, 2017 at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA. Plant material from Baja California. Bees were heavily working the flowers--even trying to push/tear in flowers not fully open. The biggest rose bush had hundreds of flowers open and also already had hundreds of hips forming. I leaned over to smell one of the flowers and was surprised not at the lack of fragrance in the bloom but that the leaves at the tip of the cane smelled like pine/citrus.
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A field of R. minutifolia on March 24, 2017 at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA. Plant material from Baja California. Bees were heavily working the flowers--even trying to push/tear in flowers not fully open. The biggest rose bush had hundreds of flowers open and also already had hundreds of hips forming. I leaned over to smell one of the flowers and was surprised not at the lack of fragrance in the bloom but that the leaves at the tip of the cane smelled like pine/citrus.