A rose bush with orange blackberries? I'm confused

Ok in my front garden there is a plant that when I first moved in I thought was a rose bush meant for climbing trellaces. Basically it got about 4 feet tall then started falling over under it's own weight. It has lots and lots of thorns that at the time reminded me of roses but now remind me more of black berries. about a month ago it got lots of little 1/2 inch or so white flowers all over it. I was thinking thats a really crappy rose and was thinking of getting rid of it.

About 2 weeks ago I noticed that the flowers where turning into what looked like small green black berries. The leaves on the plant are similar to black berries but are smaller, maybe 1/2 the size at best.

Just now I noticed that a couple of the green berries have gotten larger and now look very similar to black berries in shape and size. The issue is they are bright orange and have a purply pink feathery ring right where the stem connects to the berry.

I can take pictures this weekend if I remember the camera but does anyone know what this is and Can I eat the berries?

Thanks

 

I'd wait awhile - they may not be done ripening. Sounds like blackberries to me!

 

well I have black berries all over the place around me and none of them look like this. It's like a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry sort of.

 

http://ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/leaves/shrub/comptern/salmon1.jpg

turns out it's a salmonberry smart girlfriend figured it out now I need to figure out what I thought where salmon berries are.

 

I bet what you thought as salmon berries are called thimbles berries I did the same thing.

 

I am not surprised that you would confuse blackberries with roses strider3700, the genus Rubus is in of the Rose family. Some Rubus ssp. look similar to roses, others do not. I bet jar-58 is right about the thimble berry (Rubus parviflorus); I thought the same thing. You would not confuse this berry with a rose. Here is a link to info on the thimble berry:

http://ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/gorge/5petal/rose/thim.htm

I think they are one of my favourite wild berries. (Rubus do not have true berries, but rather a composite fruit.) The flavour is so rich. You never get many though; parviflora means few flowers.

 

correct they are thimbleberrys I have a massive bush of them in the back yard. Do they taste any good?