I am in Meridian Idaho, and my new house has quite a few wild areas with plants, trees and shrubs growing. Today I noticed a couple of flowering bushes that appear to have some berries on them… Although they are now dried up. I am trying to identify the berries and determine if they are something that is edible. Some of the bushes have white flowers and some have pink. The leaves have serrated edges, and there are thorns on the shrubs.

Hi and welcome to NGA!

That looks like a Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata). The berries are seed pods aka Rose Hips.

Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata)

Trying to identify this tree in my niece's yard.

Welcome to the forum! What a lovely tree; where approximately does your niece live?

Wow thats a beauty. I think it may be this.

Anneau12 said:I am in Meridian Idaho, and my new house has quite a few wild areas with plants, trees and shrubs growing. Today I noticed a couple of flowering bushes that appear to have some berries on them… Although they are now dried up. I am trying to identify the berries and determine if they are something that is edible. Some of the bushes have white flowers and some have pink. The leaves have serrated edges, and there are thorns on the shrubs.

Both are roses, but difficult if not impossible to tell the exact species from just those pictures. Some possibilities are Rosa laevigata, R. bracteata, R. palustris, R. carolina and others. The "berries" are called rose hips and are edible.

Thank you all! I appreciate the help in identifying this.

I just realized the tree was posted to your rose question thread by a second person.

Rose reminds me of Rosa nutkana, which I have growing in abundance.

Yes, there are two member questions in this thread, unfortunately, I can no longer split the second one off to its own thread as there are answers to both of them.