Rosa pinetorum - Whiskey rose

Whiskey rose (Rosa pinetorum) is a deciduous shrub rarely seen in the wild, found under live oaks and bays on cold north-facing slopes and at redwood-forest edges in California, with showy, fragrant flowers and edible, fragrant fruit. It grows 0.5-1 m tall and 1-2 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Semi-shade¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Rose hip¹

Type

• Rosa spp. - Rose
• Shrub
• Deciduous

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.5-1
Diameter (m)	1-2

Footnotes

1. Rosa pinetorum, Whiskey Rose | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩