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Oct. 27th, 2004 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraRose hips are, frankly, a wee bit creepy.
They resemble an unholy cross between a somewhat gelatinous looking red-orange berry and a Shadow vessel. Add to that the disturbing crackling* sound they make when you trim off the blossom end (the taint of Shadow), a childhood spent with a garden that used very minimal pesticides, an active imagination, and a deep fear of bugs and you get one kitty-dragon ready to leap across the room and commence climbing walls. Or, given my size, breaking through them.
*A rose hip is basically a thin sticky shell used to enclose rose seeds**. When you trim them your knife grates on the seeds, hence a crackling sound.
**Anyone that has read that they are related to apples will have a completely erroneous preconception of what these things look like inside. Think of them as a ball of seeds, loosely bound by some hairy fibers, wrapped in a bit of jelly***, just enough to hold them together. A couple dozen seeds per rosehip, easily (I haven't actually counted but there are LOTS).
***Have I mentioned they are sticky?
They resemble an unholy cross between a somewhat gelatinous looking red-orange berry and a Shadow vessel. Add to that the disturbing crackling* sound they make when you trim off the blossom end (the taint of Shadow), a childhood spent with a garden that used very minimal pesticides, an active imagination, and a deep fear of bugs and you get one kitty-dragon ready to leap across the room and commence climbing walls. Or, given my size, breaking through them.
*A rose hip is basically a thin sticky shell used to enclose rose seeds**. When you trim them your knife grates on the seeds, hence a crackling sound.
**Anyone that has read that they are related to apples will have a completely erroneous preconception of what these things look like inside. Think of them as a ball of seeds, loosely bound by some hairy fibers, wrapped in a bit of jelly***, just enough to hold them together. A couple dozen seeds per rosehip, easily (I haven't actually counted but there are LOTS).
***Have I mentioned they are sticky?
