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Rubus niveus

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Thunberg

Common Names

• Hill Raspberry
• Mysore Raspberry
• Gamang (Myanmar)
• Gamaw (Myanmar)
• Lingvoom (Myanmar)
• Shan-zi (Myanmar)
• Shan-zi-phyu (Myanmar)
• Wild Blackberry

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Bhutan
• Gansu
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Himalaya
• Kashmir - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Is.
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• montane areas
• sparse forests
• streamside
• floodplain

Flowering Times

• May-Jul (China) Nov (India)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug-Sep (China)

Sometime climbing or erect glabrescent rambling woody shrub to 2m, sparse recurved prickles, imparipinnate leaves to 270mm long with 7-11 doubly serrated mucronate leaflets, pilose or glabrous above, white-pubescent beneath to 80mm x 40mm. Terminal & axillary tomentose 2-12 flowered corymbs, cymes or racemes to 200mm with bracts, white, red or pink-purple flowers to 10mm diameter, tomentose calyx, white-tomentose triangular sepals to 7mm x 2.5mm, pink petals glabrous or slightly pubescent outside to 5mm x 3.5mm, fruit orange-red hairy drupe to 12mm diameter

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• APDC
• Huang & Hu
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Elmer
• Fedde
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS