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Aeonium arboreum, the tree aeonium, [2] tree houseleek, or Irish rose, [citation needed] is a succulent, subtropical subshrub in the flowering plant family Crassulaceae.
Rosa canina, "wild rose" or "dog rose", a climbing rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia; Rosa virginiana, "Virginia rose", a rose species native to North America; Rosa woodsii, "wild rose" of the sagebrush steppe in the Great Basin of North America; Diplolaena grandiflora, an Australian flowering shrub
Rosa acicularis is a flowering plant in the Rosaceae family. It is commonly known as the prickly wild rose , prickly rose , bristly rose , wild rose or Arctic rose . It is a species of wild rose with a Holarctic distribution in northern regions of Asia, [ 3 ] Europe, [ 4 ] and North America.
Cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus: a relict plant of the Ice Age. Ice-sheets covered most of Ireland until 13,000 years ago when the Holocene began. The majority of Ireland's flora and fauna has only returned as the ice sheets retreated and sea level rose accompanied by post-glacial rebound when 10,000 years ago the climate began to warm.
Classical writers did not recognise Rosa canina as a rose, but called it Cynorrhodon, from the Greek "kunórodon". In 1538, Turner called it "Cynosbatos : wild hep or brere tree". Yet in 1551, Matthias de l'Obel classified it as a rose, under the name, "Canina Rosa odorata et silvestris", in his herbal "Rubus canis: Brere bush or hep tree" . [12]
Rosa woodsii is a perennial [4] bushy shrub which grows up to 3 metres (10 feet) tall. The shrubs can form large, dense thickets. The plant reproduces sexually by seed and vegetatively by sprouting from the root crown, layering, and by producing root suckers.