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 05/22/2008 06:21:29 PM · #1
Just noticed this growing in with my lilac bush, I have NO idea what it is. Should I cut it down?? Is it potentially harmful to my bush?? Grrrrr. So frustrating! LOL



Middle TN area

Any help would be... uhhhhh... helpful :P THANKS!!!
 05/22/2008 06:29:24 PM · #2
Maybe a chokecherry? .... link to info
 05/22/2008 06:31:30 PM · #3
some kind of briar rose? Are there any prickles on the stems?
 05/22/2008 06:34:58 PM · #4
That is what threw me off... They are FULL of thorns like the one in the second image... I didn't see anything about thorns on the link provided, but the flowers look similar...
 05/22/2008 06:43:45 PM · #5
maybe rosehip?
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_canina
 05/22/2008 06:43:58 PM · #6
Looks like a sweetbriar rose...single...five petals, thorny and wild. Won't hurt the lilac bush if it is. Does it have a scent? They are bushy in habit and can get to 8 ft. tall (if I'm right!)
 05/22/2008 06:56:13 PM · #7
No hooked spines like rosehip, not attached to the lilac bush, just growing alongside. It smells wonderful, Kat. I am looking up photos of the sweetbriar rose now...

ETA: No, those don't grow in clusters... sweetbriar rose google search results

Arghhhh

ETA2: BTW, I live on the top of a mountain, if that helps...

Message edited by author 2008-05-22 18:59:45.
 05/22/2008 07:02:28 PM · #8
It's definitely a wild rose of some variety.

Btw, wild roses tend to hybridize, so if you have more than one species around, the closest you might ever get is rosa spp.

Message edited by author 2008-05-22 19:09:08.
 05/22/2008 07:11:42 PM · #9
Ok, not choke cherry, how about hawthorn
 05/22/2008 07:16:13 PM · #10
The thorns and leaf-shape are roselike, not the bigger, more "lance"-like hawthorn thorns, I think, though hawthorn was my first thought, looking at the blossoms.

My guess would be Rosa woodsii. I notice that the new blossoms are pink, then they fade. That's what threw me off at first glance :)

Message edited by author 2008-05-22 19:30:00.
 05/22/2008 07:41:25 PM · #11
I would agree it may be a wild rose. This would be an example of a wild rose blossom from Wisconsin:



Some what similar to your blossom, as BeeCee noted "wild roses tend to hybridize" so they can have various colour and shape, I have most often seen wild roses as single bloom, rather than usually recognized double blossom.
 05/22/2008 07:52:22 PM · #12
multiflora rose seems to fit the bill and is classified as an invasive plant which would mean it would be likely to just "appear". This site has several pictures of it.
 05/22/2008 07:56:48 PM · #13
Originally posted by Prism:
multiflora rose seems to fit the bill and is classified as an invasive plant which would mean it would be likely to just "appear". This site has several pictures of it.


I think we have a winner!!! Sure looks the same to me.
 05/22/2008 08:11:11 PM · #14
Originally posted by Prism:
multiflora rose seems to fit the bill and is classified as an invasive plant which would mean it would be likely to just "appear". This site has several pictures of it.


I never even thought to look at introduced species... DOH!

You might want to get rid of it, dunno; a problem sometimes, apparently
 05/22/2008 08:41:09 PM · #15
Originally posted by BeeCee:

I never even thought to look at introduced species... DOH!



05/22/2008 10:24:39 PM · #16
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!

This: It restricts human, livestock, and wildlife movement and displaces native vegetation. Worries me. I am gonna have to kill it, I think!! I LOVE MY LILAC BUSH!!!

ETA: THANK YOU GUYS SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!

Message edited by author 2008-05-22 22:27:30.
 05/23/2008 11:09:25 AM · #17
Is your lilac in bloom? Ours are just bursting out after a few days' sunshine. The yard smells heavenly :D

(And Jason... shup! :P) lol
 05/23/2008 12:12:08 PM · #18
No, ours blooms early in the year. It was COVERED in butterflies when it did though :)
 05/23/2008 02:24:05 PM · #19
Roses definitly hybridize...I've a Lady banksia (monster bush, that was a slip from this lol) that is thornless...with the exception of those 20 canes with really sharp, long thorns that had to have come from the two rose plants next to it!!!!!!

The scratches hurt and can shred clothing, lol. Gotta love those "thornless" rose plants! :P Glad you figured out what you have.

Message edited by author 2008-05-23 14:25:30.
 05/23/2008 07:53:44 PM · #20
COOL!!! I guess you were a little bit shocked to find your "thornless" bush with thorns eh?? hehe
 05/23/2008 08:05:47 PM · #21
Berg, you must have the yello LB or otherwise known as Tombstone Rose. I have the yellow with no thorns, the white one does have thorns though. and they hurt
 05/23/2008 08:13:53 PM · #22
Originally posted by JulietNN:
Berg, you must have the yello LB or otherwise known as Tombstone Rose. I have the yellow with no thorns, the white one does have thorns though. and they hurt


Tombstone was white when we were there, lol..(this was a cane they transplanted and sold...only about a foot tall at the time)....and mine is white, but once in a blue moon...you get a "renegade" thorned cane. Mine looks like a popcorn plant in the spring, heeheeher..and smells like jasmine...love it!

Have to post a pic of the monster bush in a sec...can't upload for some reason.

devouring the 6' fence [thumb]681404[/thumb]

It's bald little canes [thumb]681405[/thumb]

How do you keep these beasts in check without ruining how they flower. (Still haven't figured out the "old wood" thing yet. :P

Message edited by author 2008-05-23 20:32:19.
 05/23/2008 09:49:52 PM · #23
Can you prune it??
 05/23/2008 09:54:48 PM · #24
The picture of the bush and descriptions mentioned, it looks like something that was growing to the side of my house just under my window. Mine had thorns, however this thing was just OUT OF CONTROL! So... I killed it

It was beautiful though, just... out of control
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