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Rubus pirifolius

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

Smith

Common Names

• Li ye xuan gou zi (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Is.
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• S. Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• streamsides
• forests
• forest margins
• jungle
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China) May-Aug (Philippines) Aug-Oct (Taiwan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (China)
• Aug (Philippines) Sep-Nov (Taiwan)

Tall prickly climbing shrub to 30m with densely hairy stems and a few prickles, serrated glabrous coriaceous simple leaves to 160mm x 95mm, upper & lowers leaf surface glabrous, hairy along veins, spiny beneath. Terminal corymbose greenish panicles to 400mm long or axillary sub-racemes of flowers with lobed bracts to 9mm x 2mm, 15mm diameter white flowers, villous calyx, sepals to 11mm x 4mm with lobes or teeth to 2mm, glabrous petals 7mm x 3.5mm, fruit dark red fleshy glabrous aggregate to 15mm diameter

Further References

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