Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are all ...

A rare thorny situation, which could be a rose or a thorn depending on your point of view, found its way into our rose garden this week. Rose with thorns: It really depends on how you perceive it, but ...

A rose at the New York Botanical Garden; some varieties grow naturally “thornless.” Jack Satterlee, a postdoc in CSHL’s Lippman lab, turned to the Botanical Garden for help procuring rare plant ...

Did you know roses have prickles and not thorns? A thorn is a sharp modified stem that grows out of the woody stems of many kinds of trees and shrubs such as honey locust and hawthorn with a short ...

According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. Since then, roses’ thorns have captured the imaginations of countless ...