{"id":3356,"date":"2019-05-22T00:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-1007\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:28:49","slug":"on-naming-dog-rose","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-naming-dog-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"on naming dog rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did the dog rose get its name?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The name dog rose, or <em>Rosa canina<\/em>, can be traced as far back as ancient Greece. The Greek physician Hippocrates, and later the Roman naturalist Pliny, believed that a cure for the bite of a rabid dog could be made from the roots. There are alternate theories but their histories cannot reach back as far. Some say the name is from &#8216;dag&#8217; rather than dog, and that it refers to the dagger-sharp thorns. But this seems implausible, given how many fiercely thorny rose species there are. Some also claim that is it a pejorative name, as in &#8216;a dog of a rose,&#8217; an inferior flower. Again, there is no history backing this theory.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=12434\"><em>Elsevier&#8217;s Dictionary of Plant Lore<\/em><\/a> (edited by D. C. Watt, Academic Press, 2007), the medicinal property of the the rose&#8217;s roots came from a mother&#8217;s dream about her soldier son who had been bitten by a mad dog. In the dream, a voice told her to make a decoction of a wild rose&#8217;s roots, &#8220;which they call Cynorrhodon,&#8221; and she followed this advice, healing her son of his ailment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the dog rose get its name? &nbsp; The name dog rose, or Rosa canina, can be traced as far back as ancient Greece. The Greek physician Hippocrates, and later the Roman naturalist Pliny, believed that a cure for the bite of a rabid dog could be made from the roots. There are alternate theories but their histories cannot reach back as far. Some say the name is from &#8216;dag&#8217; rather than dog, and that it refers to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-naming-dog-rose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on naming dog rose<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[847,1026],"class_list":["post-3356","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-common-names","keyword-rosa-canina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}