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Blackbird on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Blackbird (Turdus merula) female eating a Rose hip, Glasgow. Many Blackbirds are resident, but in winter their numbers are swelled by visitors from their breeding grounds in the north, such as Scandinavia.
11 December 2012
Waxwing on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) on Rose hips, which were slightly too big for them to swallow whole, so they preferred smaller Berberis and Cotoneaster berries, Glasgow. Its crop is bulging with berries, which they gobble at an astounding rate of several every minute.
11 December 2012
Dog Rose, Milton, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire
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West Dunbartonshire and Clydebank
The ovary of a Dog Rose (Rosa canina) ripens after flowering to become a rose hip, a bright red, shiny oval fruit. Rose hips are noted for their high levels of vitamin C and antioxidants, and have been used to make tea, syrup and marmalade. The name Dog Rose originated in classical Greece, where it was once believed the plant could soothe the bite of a rabid dog. Taken by David Palmar.
29 September 2020
Dog Rose, Milton, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire
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West Dunbartonshire and Clydebank
Dog Rose (Rosa canina) is the most abundant and widespread of Britain's wild rose species, and also the most variable. It is an aggregate of similar subspecies and its sweet-scented blooms can vary in colour from white to deep pink. Rose hip syrup made from the Dog Rose has four times the Vitamin C of blackcurrant juice and twenty times that of orange juice. Taken by David Palmar.
29 September 2020
Burnet rose hips, Milton, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire
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West Dunbartonshire and Clydebank
Burnet Rose (Rosa spinosissima or R. pimipnellifolia) is a deciduous shrub forming dense patches on sand dunes, sandy heaths and further inland in limestone soils, around the coast of Scotland and the Inner Hebrides, but not seen on the Outer Hebrides or Northern Isles. The Latin name spinosissima, means ‘having many spines’. The fruit is a black hip, which is another way easily to identify this rose – all other hips are red. These hips produce a dye which when mixed with alum becomes a deep purple shade traditionally used in the making of tartan cloth. Taken by David Palmar.
29 September 2020
Guelder rose leaves and berries, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
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Carrifran Wildwood
Guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) leaves and berries, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
17 September 2020
Guelder rose bush, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
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Carrifran Wildwood
Guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) bush, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
17 September 2020
Blackbird on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Female Blackbird (Turdus merula) with a crop bulging with Rose hips, Glasgow. Many Blackbirds are resident, but in winter their numbers are swelled by visiors from their breeding grounds in north, such as Scandinavia.
11 December 2012
Waxwings on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) on Rose hips, Glasgow
11 December 2012
Waxwing on Berberis
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) eating a Rose hip, then flying off, a typical Waxwing behaviour, Glasgow
