Called “rose family” in GBIF
Rosaceae, the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
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Malus domestica
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Fragaria × ananassa
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Prunus persica
11 articles
Prunus virginiana
10 articles
Prunus avium
7 articles
Pyrus
7 articles
Rosa
7 articles
Rubus
6 articles
Fragaria vesca
5 articles
Rubus spectabilis
4 articles
Prunus avium
3 articles
Rosa × damascena
2 articles
Potentilla indica
2 articles
Rosa multiflora
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Rubus idaeus
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Rubus parviflorus
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Fragaria virginiana
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Prunus serotina
1 article
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Rubus occidentalis
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Rosa carolina
1 article
Prunus pseudocerasus
1 article
Rubus chamaemorus
1 article
Crataegus monogyna
1 article
Sanguisorba officinalis
1 article
Prunus mume
1 article
Physocarpus capitatus
1 article
Prunus domestica
1 article
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Prunus lusitanica
1 article
Rubus odoratus
1 article
Cydonia oblonga
1 article
Spiraea douglasii
1 article
Prunus cerasus
1 article
Potentilla recta
1 article
Sorbus intermedia
1 article
Heteromeles arbutifolia
1 article
Rubus ursinus
1 article
Cotoneaster salicifolius
1 articleAlso here, with one plant each: Agrimonia (Agrimonia pilosa), Bencomia (Bencomia exstipulata), Cotoneaster (Willow-leaved Cotoneaster), Crataegus (Common Hawthorn), Cydonia (Quince), Heteromeles (Toyon), Malus (Apple), Physocarpus (Pacific ninebark), Sanguisorba (Great burnet), Sorbus (Swedish Whitebeam), Spiraea (Rose Spirea), Pyracantha (Pyracantha), Pyrus (Pear).
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Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this family, newest first.
Researchers coated strawberries with a chitosan and carvacrol (oregano oil compound) spray and used statistical modeling to find the ideal concentration for keeping fruit fresh longer in storage.
If you grow table grapes on a backyard arbor, a simple edible coating made from starch and berry extract could help your...
If you grow cherries, strawberries, or blackberries, the pest flies damaging your fruit are quietly recruiting different...
If you grow corn, sunflowers, or fruit trees, understanding when this pest is actually dispersing versus just stirring in a...
If you garden in the Pacific Northwest, this evergreen hedge favorite is quietly seeding itself into natural areas, which...
If you've got a drought-tolerant hedge with small white flowers and clusters of red berries in fall, you might already be...
The deep purple and red hues in your blueberries, black currants, and purple cabbage aren't just pretty, they're the same...
The strawberries filling your garden bed or farmers market table most of the year instead of just in June trace back to a...
The same antibiotic resistance crisis showing up in farm animals is a preview of what happens to soil and garden ecosystems...
The apples, poplars, and grapevines in orchards and windbreaks near you could one day be bred for disease resistance or...
The native toyon and coffeeberry you buy for a habitat garden or restoration planting could carry root-rotting pathogens into...
Sporothrix is the fungus behind 'rose gardener's disease,' and it enters through skin pricks from thorns, sphagnum moss, and...
The stunted, knobby-rooted tomatoes or carrots in your vegetable bed may be infested with root-knot nematodes, and buying...
If you're restoring a native garden or hiking LA's canyons, this low-growing blackberry is a groundcover you can identify and...
The pears, apples, and other orchard fruits you buy take years to breed better versions of because trees are slow and stubborn...
The apple peels and cores you toss in the compost bin contain a fiber whose molecular structure, and therefore its usefulness...
The bruised, unsellable apples that get tossed after cider pressing or a bad harvest year can be fermented by bacteria into...
If you use biodegradable mulch or landscape fabric in your garden beds, leaving it in place to break down rather than hauling...
If you garden in a dry region or run a backyard aquaponics setup, this suggests your fish tank runoff could water fruit plants...
The cherries that taste bland by the time they hit your fruit bowl aren't imagining it: this research maps exactly which...
The gnarled apple tree in your backyard that takes a professional pruner years of trained eye to shape correctly could someday...
The netted apple, cherry, or nut orchard you pass on a drive through farm country is quietly cutting off pollinators and...
The strawberry patch in your backyard or the pints at your farmers market could taste sweeter or blander depending on trace...
If you grow plums, cherries, or apricots, the same white flowers that signal spring to you are also luring in a...
If you've ever grown an apple tree and watched its leaves develop dark blotchy spots by midsummer, that's likely this exact...
If you grow peaches in a small backyard, the rootstock grafted underneath your tree, not the variety on top, is what decides...
If you grow roses for cut flowers or fragrance, a simple vitamin C spray could mean more blooms and richer-smelling petals...
The next time you watch a tomato turn red on the vine or an apple blush in the fall sun, a specific set of genetic switches...
The next time you see an autonomous harvester rolling through an orchard, this is the kind of vision system deciding which...
The apple varieties you plant in your yard or find at a farmers market take decades to breed, and this method could shave...
If you grow pear trees or love visiting an orchard in fall, this points toward future disease-resistant varieties that need...
If you've ever bought a store strawberry transplant that struggled to take root, this research explains why: tissue-culture...
If you grow cherries, peaches, or other stone fruit, the leafhoppers quietly feeding on your trees may carry a lethal disease,...
The dark red clusters ripening on chokecherry shrubs along trails and fencerows right now are edible once cooked into jelly or...
Chokecherry feeds birds, bears, and pollinators all along river corridors, so spotting one on a popular trail is a reminder of...
If you've ever lost a peach tree to weak, stunted roots, the culprit might be root-knot nematodes, and breeders are now using...
If you grow apple trees, catching rust or leaf spot while it's still a few small dots on a handful of leaves, rather than...
The yellow roses lining garden beds and flower shops get their color from a genetic program that breeders can now study in...
If you spot clusters of dark red-to-black berries on a shrubby tree along a trail or fence line this week, there's a good...
Every confirmed sighting like this one helps botanists track where great burnet actually grows versus where old records...
If you grow apple trees, knowing that chilling hours and elevation drive ripening timing more than almost anything else helps...
If you grow roses (or any water-thirsty ornamental) in a dry climate, this shows that layering mulch with composted manure can...
If you grow apples or plant flowers to support pollinators, the fungicides and soil particles those blooms pick up are landing...
That scraggly shrub along the fence line or trail edge is chokecherry, and its clusters of dark red fruit are a favorite of...
Street trees you walk past every day often aren't native at all, and citizen naturalists tracking sightings like this one help...
If you're weeding a fence line or hiking a local trail in the lower Hudson Valley, this thorny shrub can form dense,...
If you grow fruit trees, the small blue-black bees nesting in hollow stems near your yard each spring may be doing more...
If you're walking a Pacific Northwest neighborhood in summer, those big velvety leaves and raspberry-like fruit belong to a...
If you grow strawberries in a raised bed or container, the microbes already living around the roots could be recruited to...
The strawberries in your backyard patch or local farm stand may soon get a boost from a probiotic-style soil treatment instead...
If you hike the Finger Lakes gorges, this is the shrub with big purple flowers and fuzzy stems that isn't actually a raspberry...
If you've got an apple tree in your backyard with mysterious spotted leaves, this kind of tool could eventually live in a...
If you grow peach trees, catching shot hole disease early and knowing how bad it is could save your harvest before the damage...
If you're planting for birds and pollinators in the Mountain West, chokecherry is a proven native that feeds wildlife and can...
Pacific ninebark is a workhorse native shrub for Pacific Northwest gardeners: its spring clusters of white flowers feed bees...
If you're restoring a soggy corner of your yard or a streambank near you, Rose Spirea is the kind of native shrub that thrives...
If you grow blackberries and have noticed hard, sour, red drupelets that never sweeten up at harvest time, this research...
If you grow fruit trees, this points to a future where smarter, lower fertilizer inputs work with the tree's own root...
Cherry trees in your region are blooming earlier each decade, and a single late frost can wipe out an entire year's fruit...
Black raspberries ripen weeks before cultivated varieties, so spotting one in the wild tells you exactly when to scout your...
Endemic plants clinging to a single mountainside are the canaries in the coal mine for climate tipping points, and this one is...
The fragrance fading from modern roses isn't accidental; breeders selected for looks and shelf life over scent, and mapping...
Peach orchards and corn plots across Asia are being bored apart by a moth whose larvae tunnel directly into fruit and ears,...
Those spent petals and pruned rose canes you're composting after harvest could be worth keeping: the 'waste' from damask roses...
Wild chokecherries lining the trails and roadsides near you may be hosting a pathogen that's quietly reshaping which cherries...
Thimbleberry is one of the easiest native shrubs to establish in a shady Pacific Northwest garden — it spreads by runners,...
Sulphur cinquefoil spreading into roadsides and meadows near you is an early warning sign for a pasture or restoration...
Every bee that disappears from a sprayed orchard is one fewer visitor to the wildflowers and vegetables in your garden — and...
Every strawberry runner your plants send out this summer — those arching stems that root and make free daughter plants —...
Strawberry breeders working to develop varieties that fruit longer, ripen more evenly, or tolerate heat stress depend on...
Growing strawberries in a warm climate is notoriously tricky, but a 12-hour LED lighting schedule can coax Japanese varieties...
Cherry, raspberry, or blueberry growers: that ornamental honeysuckle or wild sour cherry growing at the edge of your planting...
If you grow strawberries and keep losing plants to mysterious root rot, the fix might already be growing in your garden:...
If you grow lupins or peaches and eat them fresh from the garden, the fats naturally present on the skin or in the seed coat...
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If you grow raspberries, the genetic markers found here could eventually help breeders release home-garden varieties with...
Letting honeybees work your pear tree rather than hand-pollinating isn't just easier — the bees trigger a hormonal response...
Mock strawberry creeping through your lawn or garden bed is easy to overlook as a weed — but its look-alike fruits and low...
Fire blight can turn a healthy backyard apple or pear tree into blackened, dying branches in a single wet spring, and this...
Breeders working with ornamental plums and apricots now have a precise genetic dial for tuning fruit sourness — meaning the...
Elderberry, chamomile, plantain, and nettles growing in your garden or hedgerow have been quietly treating coughs and chest...
Chokecherry thickets along your local trail edges are producing clusters of dark red fruit right now — and they're one of the...
Multiflora rose forms impenetrable thickets that crowd out the native shrubs and wildflowers your local pollinators and...
Virginia strawberry is fruiting in yards, meadows, and trail edges right now — and the tiny red berries are edible, intensely...
Chokecherry thickets along roadsides and woodland edges are prime spots to watch for tiger swallowtails and cedar waxwings...
Carolina rose is a tough, drought-tolerant native shrub that supports pollinators and wildlife — and spotting it in a cemetery...
Cherry trees lining your neighborhood streets or blooming in your backyard may soon be bred to flower more reliably as springs...
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Wild strawberry patches threading through your lawn or meadow edge aren't weeds — they're a ground-level native that feeds...
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Abandoned quarries near your region could be quietly becoming some of the best wildlife habitat around — native plants...
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Those 'chilling hours' on apple nursery tags — the reason you can't grow a Honeycrisp reliably in coastal California — now...
If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with the leaves, a tool like this...
Apple trees in mountain orchards facing longer dry spells could be shielded with a simple leaf treatment rather than more...
Apple orchards worldwide are quietly being poisoned by their own soil after replanting, and this research points toward a...
Pear and apple trees in home orchards across Central Asia and increasingly beyond are threatened by a disease that has quietly...
Peaches at your farmers market could be sweeter, firmer, and less likely to bruise or rot before reaching your kitchen — just...
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Gray mold quietly destroys strawberry and tomato harvests — and the fungicide most growers spray to stop it is increasingly...
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Wild roses from Central Asia are the ancestors of many garden roses you grow today, and understanding which genes help them...
Knowing exactly where your apple tree's soil is potassium-poor — rather than guessing and over-fertilizing everywhere — means...
The strawberries, blueberries, and cherries at your farmers market are under constant threat from an invasive fly that ruins...
The apples at your grocery store or farmers market likely come from orchards drenched in fungicides to fight apple scab — this...
Plastic mulch film and garden plastic debris breaking down in your vegetable beds is quietly reshaping the microbial ecosystem...
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Peaches grown in the same orchard year after year slowly poison themselves through their own root chemicals — but the right...
Salmonberries ripen earlier than almost any other wild berry in spring, and tracking when and where people spot them helps...
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Mock strawberry quietly spreads through lawns, gardens, and parks near you — and knowing where it's showing up helps...
Black cherry is a native tree that produces fruit eaten by dozens of bird species and supports hundreds of moth and butterfly...
Tracking when and where salmonberry blooms and fruits each year helps gardeners, foragers, and conservationists understand how...
Strawberry wilt can wipe out entire crops silently through the soil, and this new tool lets farmers catch it early enough to...
Tracking when and where salmonberry blooms and fruits each year helps gardeners, foragers, and conservationists understand how...
Hawthorn can spread into wild areas and outcompete native plants, so knowing exactly where it grows in your city helps land...
It points toward a practical, natural way to grow safer strawberries with lower pesticide residues — the kind you actually eat...
Strawberries you buy at the store — or grow in your garden — may soon be protected by beneficial microbes instead of chemical...
It means the pears you buy at the grocery store could one day be grown with far less chemical fertilizer — saving farmers...
Understanding exactly how apple trees sense and survive freezing could help breeders develop frost-resistant varieties,...
Red color of apples isn't just cosmetic — anthocyanins are the antioxidants that make apples healthy to eat, and understanding...