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Rubus leucanthus

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Hance

Common Names

• Bai hua xuan gou zi (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hong Kong
• Hunan
• Yunnan - China
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• wasteland
• forest edge
• streamside
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Jul (China)

Prickly climbing shrub with glabrous stems, trifoliolate leaves, coriaceous leaflets, glabrous both surfaces, lateral or terminal corymbs or panicles of 15mm diameter white flowers, glabrous calyx, white glabrous petals 8mm x 6mm, fruit glabrous red aggregate to 15mm diameter

Naturalised in some places

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• The Plant List
• NYBG
• F Indochine