I have harvested rose hips before - but only from bushes in my own yard. However, I think I've found some young, small wild roses with hips on them. The leaves are toothed, as I know wild rose bushes are in our area, but I have not seen the plant flowering. There are very fine thorns on the plant. And there are hips. But here's the thing: They are red already (in July) and I thought rose hips never got ripe and red until fall.
Does anyone know if rose hips can redden earlier? Or can anyone positively ID the plant from the photos below? (I didn't have a camera with me, so I picked some leaves and hips.) And does anyone know if there's another plant that produces what looks like rose hips?
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