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, 0 They are Rosa rugosa, not R. multiflora. I think some are still present on Dunbrack. Nick Hill has studied Rosa rugosa on Brier, I don't think it's published yet. (He gave a talk about R. rugosa on Brier to NS Wild Flora Soc in 2011 titled "War of the Roses".) The paper by Hill et al. "Rosa rugosa Thunb. as an Invader of Coastal Sand Dunes of Cape Breton Island and Mainland of Nova Scotia"is available at http://fernhillns.ca/fernhillnsWP/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/rosapdf.pdf Rosa rugosa seems not yet v. common on Atlantic coast beaches/dunes, so I think it's well worth looking out for them (& removing them) in those sites. Quoting Peter Payzant <pce@accesswave.ca>: > I was wondering if the roses which were installed on Dunbrack St. in > Halifax (and later removed, I believe) were multiflora? > > And how about the enormous ones which you see on the coast, say > between the North Light and Seal Cove on Brier Island, and on the > barrachois beach at Pond Cove on Brier? > > Peter Payzant > > > David Patriquin 6165 Murray Place Halifax, N.S. Canada B3H 1R9 e-mail: patriqui@dal.ca Phone: 902-4235716 Professor of Biology (retired) Dalhousie University http://www.dal.ca Halifax Field Naturalists http://halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society http://nswildflora.ca Young Naturalists Club of Nova Scotia http://ync.nature1st.net/ Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organization http://wrweo.ca Control of Chinch Bug without Pesticides http://versicolor.ca/lawns
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