The Native Americans believe that many years ago the rose bush had no thorns. They were just pretty pink roses with leaves and a smooth stem, emanating sweet smelling fragrance. But they made an easy catch for the rabbits and other predators that ate up entire bushes many times.
Native Americans believe that roses had no thorns but just colorful petals with smooth stems emanating a rich & sweet fragrance several years ago. But they were an attraction to rabbits and other herbivores. Since they used to eat the entire bush, roses went to a man with magical powers named Nanahboozoo.
A frequent query we ran across in our research was “What is ‘even the most Rose has thorns’?”.
Most of it copied below:: “Every rose has its thorn” is a famous proverb generally used to teach an important fact about human nature-nobody is perfect. Even the rose, beautiful and enticing, is not without its flaws ; the prickly thorns of the rose can poke and pierce the flesh.
Is Rose the only flower with thorns?
Not all roses have thorns. Vigorous breeding of rose flowers has resulted in different variations of the rose flower, with some types of roses having very few thorns on one stalk and some other kinds that have no thorns at all. Pricks from these thorns may lead to infection, especially for people with compromised or underdeveloped immunity.
You see, Roses aren’t the only plants that can prick you with thorns or sharp edges. As mentioned earlier, rose thorns are really just prickles . Anatomically, a prickle is similar to a hair, but can be quite sharp such as with roses. Spines are found on plants like cacti, and are essentially an extension of the plant’s leaves.
How did thorns originate in Roses?
Similarly in roses, they have thorns (actually prickles in Botany) to protect them from being eaten by animals. Extra protection functions like Thorns for Roses or Regeneration is triggered by DNA from earlier events of damage. NOTE : Thorns are derived from shoots and Prickles are derived from epidermis tissue.
Do roses have thorns, or do thorns have roses?
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Optimistic and pessimistic viewpoints are ingeniously contrasted in this expression. One may emphasize the beauty and lovely fragrance of a rose, or one may become preoccupied with the threatening pain of a thorn.
Another thing we wondered was; do roses have thorns, spines or prickles?
We call roses thorny but they do not in fact have thorns but prickles – botanically at least – since they grow not from the stem itself but its surface.