Rose Hip Fruit Oil - Wildcrafted & Unrefined
What is Rose Hips Oil? Native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia, Rosa canina (Rose Hips) grows wild in clusters on slopes, valleys, riverbeds and sparse forests, favoring forest edges, shrublands, clearings, and along roadsides and fences, from sea level up to about 1700 m.In several countries the plant is considered a weed. In South America, Rose Hips, which was brought to the continent by Europeans, grows in the cold, rainy, and lush mountain valleys of the southern Andes in Chile, where it is the national plant. It is known by Chileans as "Rosa Mosqueta," and by scientists as Rosa rubiginosa affinis.The plant is a shrub that can exceed 2 m in height with thin, flexible stems that are curved and covered with purplish spines. The leaves are deciduous, alternate, compound 5 to 9 leaflets that are polished with serrated edges. The flowers show five free petals, pink or white-pink with a musky smell, in bushy and terminal panicles. The stamens are bright yellow. Flowering oc