Talk:Rosa canina

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Contents 1 Incorrectly called Rose hip 2 Another type 3 Use as Drug in Vietnam 4 Etymology is clear

[edit] Incorrectly called Rose hip

Back home in Québec along the St-Lawrence, we pick lots of rose hip, I thought it was Rosa. Could you anyone insert some more content on why it is wrongly named. The Rose hip page is no help as it mentions no species...--Tallard 06:37, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another type

I saw a very different type of Rosa canina with much larger and more juicy fruits. I cannot find any picture of it on the Net though.--Dojarca (talk) 09:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use as Drug in Vietnam

Any proof of this? The only I know of is in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War, but does this really count? In any case, no one cited anything, so who knows.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.175.18.229 (talk) 23:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology is clear

The ancient Greeks called the fruits of this plant "kunorhodon" literally meaning "rose of the dog". It was long believed throughout Europe that the fruits had the virtue of curing rabid bites. In French, they are still sometimes called "cynorhodon" (obviously from Greek). In any sense, there is nothing "disparaging" in the presence of the word "dog" in the name of the plant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.57.14.131 (talk) 15:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)