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 ...

There is no rose without thorns, the old saying goes. But to botanists, there is no rose with thorns: The spiky outgrowths of a rose stem are called “prickles,” and are biologically distinct ...

Portland's professional women's soccer team, slated to begin play next spring, will be called the Portland Thorns. The team unveiled the name and logo, featuring a red rose encircled by thorns ...

Reddened stems on a rose bush indicate a plant infected by rose rosette virus, which will eventually kill it. Remove the plant quickly before it spreads. By Ellen Nibali ...

The findings not only open the door for scientists looking to create prickle-free variants but also provide insight into the ...

By Linda, Everett Public Library staff. 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 ...

Last year, I received five dozen red roses for Valentine's Day. They were from me. I am a florist in San Francisco, and I couldn't sell as many as I had expected. Even in the most romantic city in ...

Q: Last spring I transplanted a rose plant. I think it is a climbing rose, though I'm not sure. It grew to about 4 feet tall last year and again this year after pruning. It has yet to produce any ...

I’m talking roses, not rosettes—which have also been absolutely everywhere on the spring runways thus far—but full-on, long-stem roses, with leaves, thorns, and all.