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Rubus fruticosus

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Blackberry
• Bramble
• Bumblekites
• Scaldberry

Geographical Habitats

• Europe Germany
• Britain

Natural Habitats

• Hedges
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

• Late Summer-Autumn

Scrambling glabrous or tomentose prickly-stemmed shrub with tomentose panicles of white to pink 60mm mm diameter, flowers in a racemose corymb, fruit black drupelets to 25mm long, recurved thorns, palmate leaves, 3-5 leaflets greyish-pubescent beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Krussmann 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Johns 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Viking 1999
• FONZ
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• JDH
• APDC
• Botanicus
• The Plant List