>>...the fruit of a (wild) rose bush in English? AFAIR, the German word is Hagebutten, at least that's what it said on the tea bag.
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>Rose Hip. My favorite tea is Fix Butte, from Germany.

That's the one, though not as good as what my mother-in-law makes. There's a couple of huge bushes near my father's wineyard, and it's just a matter of picking them at the right time and drying them properly.

As for the tea, it's the perfect thing to drink all day while on the beach - it's sufficiently sweat as is, so you can drink it without any sweetener at all, and tastes much better than the water at the same temperature (i.e. when the bottle is in the sun). Though, we (my German and Dutch friends then) would usually stay on the beach into the evening, and nobody believed it wasn't wine :). Of course, we brought wine a bit later, when everyone understood that the reddish liquid in the bottle was tea :).