Roses are lovely flowers that spell romance. They are popular for courting and romance, although there doesn't have to be a reason to give away a rose. It can be "just because." Did you know that what is commonly known as the "thorns" are actually called "prickles?" These prickles are outgrowths of the outer layer of the stem.
According to Wikipedia, a rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, occasionally reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants.
The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Rose species that produce open-faced flowers are attractive to pollinating bees and other insects, thus more apt to produce hips. Many of the domestic cultivars are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips.
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