Glossary of Rose Hip Terms

Knowing the plant names and parts can help you define your nutrition needs and sources. It is like learning a new language and can help you interpret new words. I hope you get a better understanding because you know what words mean.

Debbie

In order to identify what Rose Hips are good for, it is good to know the terms that are used to describe its use including the parts of the plants.

Nutrient Terms

1. Antioxidant – a substance that counters the damaging effects of oxygen which damages body cells and increase the risk of developing into disease
2. Ascorbic Acid – a protecting antioxidant found most in citrus fruits and vegetables that are green in color. Maintains healthy cell life. Also called Vitamin C. Rose Hips is a major source of this nutrient.
3. Carotenoid – antioxidants found in plants, used in the process of photosynthesis, is a source of Vitamin A
4. Flavonoids – a polyphenol that accounts for color in plants and tea, and nutritionally has antioxidant properties
5. Gluten Free Diet – a diet that removes gluten from the diet due to allergens. Gluten is a protein found in some grains. Gluten may be responsible to some auto-immune diseases.
6. Herbal medicine – same as plant medicine
7. Keto Diet – consisting of larger proportions of fats, moderate proportions of proteins and supplies less carbohydrates for health purposes to lose weight.
8. Plant medicine – plant medicine, herbal medicine – using plants as the basis for making preparations that has similar properties and actions as pharmaceutical drugs.
9. Polyphenols – antioxidants found in plant foods
10. Vitamin E – an antioxidant and present in plants.

Parts of the Plant*

*Source: Thank you to NRCS for this information. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/wapmctn11818.pdf

To identify the type of Rose Hip plant you are finding or looking for, it is very important to know the terms of the description.

Alternate:  one leaf is at each node.

 Anthesis:  period when the flower is open.

 Deciduous:  falling away; not persistent or evergreen.

 Gland:  a secreting surface or structure.

 Hypanthium:  an enlargement or elongation of the floral axis below the petals and sepals.

 Lateral:  borne on the sides of the structure or object.

 Leaflet:  one of the divisions of a compound leaf.

 Lobe:  a segment of an organ, especially if rounded.

 Node:  the place on a stem where leaves or branches usually originate.

 Ovary:  the part of the pistil that contains the ovules.

 Ovule:  the structure that develops into the seed.

 Petiole:  the stalk to a leaf or to a compound leaf.

 Pinnate:  compound leaf with the leaflets on two opposite sides of an elongated axis.

 Pistil:  the seed-producing organ, consisting usually of an ovary, style and stigma.

 Sepal:  one of the parts of the outer whorl of the floral envelope (below the petals), usually green in    color.

 Stamen:  the pollen-bearing organ of a flower.

 Stigma:  the part of the pistil that receives the pollen, usually at or near the apex of the pistil, hairy or sticky.

 Stipule:  an appendage at the base of the petiole or leaf at each side of its intersection; often more or less united.

 Style:  the stalk-like part of a pistil connecting the ovary and stigma.