Rosa abyssinica (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

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Ricinus communis
Bekele-Tesemma, Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia, 2007
Rosa abyssinica (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)
Salix mucronata


Rosa abyssinica Rosaceae Indigenous


Common names

  • English: Abyssinian rose
  • Agewgna: Mawordi, Gmtsi
  • Amargna: Kega
  • Guragigna: Engocha
  • Haderigna: Enqoto, Gora
  • Oromugna: Enqoto, Goro
  • Somaligna: Dayero
  • Wolaytgna: Tsege‑reda‑chisha

Ecology

Found only in Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Sudan, this rose is common in Ethiopia in upland dry evergreen forests and margins or clearings of forests as well as in bushland and dry grasslands. It is also found near houses and on river banks in Dry, Moist and Wet Weyna Dega and Dega agroclimatic zones of Tigray, Gondar, Welo, Gojam, Shewa, Harerge, Arsi and Bale, 1,700–3,300 m.

Uses

Firewood, food (fruit), medicine (flowers, roots, fruit), live fence.

Description

A prickly evergreen shrub, creeper or climber, or a small tree that grows to 7 m. Few prickles on the stem, slightly curved from a wide base and all similar. Variable in many features.

  • LEAVES: Compound, leathery, 3 pairs of leaflets plus one at the tip, each narrowly ovate 1–6 cm, tip sharp, edge toothed, on a short stalk which is winged by the leafy stipules.
  • FLOWERS: Fragrant white‑pale yellow, usually 3–20 in dense heads, each stalked, the sepals long, narrow and hairy, soon fall, 5 petals about 2 cm long, tip rounded to square, many stamens.
  • FRUIT: Green at first, ripen to orange‑red, about 2 cm long, fleshy and edible, seeds within.

Propagation

Seedlings, cuttings.

Seed

Fruits ripen in March for seed collection.

  • Treatment: No treatment needed.
  • Storage: Stores well.

Management

Smaller plants can also be divided and used for multiplication as can suckers. Bending young plants and thinning to few per stack will ease production and harvesting of fruits. There are less seedy and more fleshy varieties that can be used for improvement.

Remarks

Children collect and eat the fruits.