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Rubus ichangensis Hemsl. & Kuntze

Modern name

Rubus ichangensis Hemsl. & Kuntze

A deciduous shrub, with long, slender stems armed with small hooked spines, and furnished with numerous dark, glandular bristles. Leaves narrowly ovatecordate (often with angular lobes towards the base), the sinus open and rounded, 312 to 7 in. long, 1 to 212 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, margins sparsely toothed. Flowers white, 14 in. wide, produced in an elongated terminal panicle, supplemented below by short racemes in the axils of the uppermost leaves, the whole measuring 8 to 12 in. or even more in length; flower-stalks glandular-hairy, sepals erect, enclosing the small white petals. Fruits bright red, small, but of good flavour.

Native of Central and W. China; discovered by Henry, and introduced in 1900 by Wilson. He stated that it is one of the finest of Chinese Rubi in regard to its fruits – panicles of which he had often found over 2 ft in length.


Genus

Rubus

Other species in the genus