Eglantine

This may be an oversimplification - but I think the name is simply a variation on the Latin prickle/ for a prickly  plant (aculeus = spine). And this rose certainly is. Recently I spent some time researching the differences between the terms prickle and thorn in various languages because most rose books get them wrong. I discovered that the error is the same in Dutch and French (from rose friends in those countries). A wild guess. Bill Grant
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