("Heilongjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine")

Synonymous rose hip (Northeast). Chongqing (Chongqing)

The source is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant.

Plant form Mountain rose, also known as: rose rose, wild rose.

Deciduous shrub, 0.8 to 2 meters high. The roots are woody, long, thick, dark brown. The branches are dark purple and hairless. There are pairs of prickles at the base of the branchlets and petioles. The prickles are slightly curved or straight. Odd pinnate compound leaves alternate; leaflets 5 to 9, oblong or broadly lanceolate, 1 to 3.5 cm long, 0.5 to 1.5 cm wide, apex pointed or slightly blunt, base rounded or wedge-shaped, edge finely serrated. The upper side is dark green and hairless, and the lower side is grayish white with granular glandular spots and pubescence; the petiole has glands; the stipules are persistent, 1 cm long, and the lower 2/3 is connate with the petiole. Flowers solitary or 2 to 3 in number; dark red, about 4 cm in diameter; sepals narrow-lanceolate, as long as the corolla, entire, enlarged in fruit stage. The fruit is spherical or oval, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, red, with persistent calyx. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is from August to September.

Grows in open areas at forest edges and river banks, on hillside bushes and on wild slopes in mixed forests. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Sichuan and Chongqing and other places.

The roots (thorn berries) and flowers (thorn roses) of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes, and each has its own article.