saltspray rose

English

Saltspray rose growing on a beach

saltspray rose (plural saltspray roses)

A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa.
- 1991, Scott Russell Sanders, Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home, Boston: Beacon Press, Part 2, “Jailhouse Blues,” p. 139,
  I followed the tracks as they meandered from lane to field of purple beach peas and saltspray roses […]
- 2010, Marlaine Delargy (translator), Drowned by Therese Bohman, New York: Other Press, Part 1, p. 48,
  Every holiday when we were little we went to some cottage by the sea, to sandy Swedish beaches shelving gently into the water, saltspray roses in full bloom […]

Rosa rugosa