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Rubus alceifolius

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Poiret

Common Names

• Cu ye xuan gou zi (Pinyin)
• Mam xoi (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Is.
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Japan
• Laos
• Pahang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• disturbed areas
• streamside forest
• forest margins

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China) Aug-Oct (Taiwan) Dec

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (China) Oct-Dec (Taiwan)

Sparsely prickly scandent shrub to 5m with hairy prickly stems somewhat tetragonal, simple villose leaves palmately 3-7 lobed to 260mm x 260mm, scabrous above, tomentose beneath with recurved prickles. Axillary clusters & terminal panicles to 120mm with lobed bracts, 20mm diameter white flowers, green tomentose flower buds, hairy calyx, tomentose sepals to 10mm x 7mm with 2-5 teeth to 4mm long, white glabrous petals to 9.5mm x 9mm, fruit glabrous red aggregate to 18mm diameter with persistents sepals

Further References

• FOC
• APDC
• Huang & Hu
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS