Because these flowers were a part of the rose garden of Helsinki arboretum,
I took for sure that they are roses, too! There was written information on every species,
but I did not write down the names as my main interest was to shoot the flowers only...:)
Now I got information from an expert that "they're a rubus, one of the ornamental raspberries -- look not only at the leaves but at the unopened buds and the centres of the open flowers.
No receptacle below the sepals -- the future hip -- and the centre of the flower is not the rose's bunch of carpels but a structure almost like a little flat strawberry.
I don't know the genus at all well, and I'm guessing from books that this one is Rubus odoratus, in which case the flowers should be scented, an unusual feature, apparently, as is the long flowering season -- June to September in Britain.
It's a big, suckering and rather invasive shrub." So, here we have rose-like flowers!
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