Oh, there were certainly more of these when this posted three years ago. Since then, much of the overgrowth was removed, and remaining vegetation was pruned back accordingly.
Chopped dried rose hips can be purchased from a supermarket in town that stocks an impressive variety of useful bulk herbs. They are used as a dietary supplement and remedy for several minor ailments. Although most of the copious vitamin C they contain while fresh is ruined by drying and storage, they are still popularly used as a remedy or preventative for colds and flu.
It would be reasonable to assume that the rose hips that are available in markets would be from a species that has been cultivated and developed for a few centuries. After all, rose hips have been used as an herbal supplement for a very long time. Surprisingly, those that are available in the local market here are from the common and native California wild rose, Rosa californica.
That means that those that grow wild on the outskirts of the landscapes here produce the same…
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Tony Tomeo 
When I was in England, manly dishes had rose hips in them. We had never heard of eating them.
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I suspect that it is a regional tradition. Although some people here use them as a dietary supplement or in tea, most have not considered it.
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