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Scientific name:

Rubus saxatilis

Vernacular name:

Bramble, Stone


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Stone Bramble

Scientific name: Rubus saxatilis L.

Diagnostic features
Flowering stems to 40cm, erect, with hairs and very weak prickles.
Stolons longer, often rooting at apex but the rest dying in winter.
Leaves ternate, with ovate to elliptic leaflets.
Flowers few, in terminal corymbs, white, 8-15mm across.
Fruit red, of 1-6 drupes.

Chromosome number: 2n=28.

Habitat
Native; woods, screes and mountainslopes on basic soils.

Distribution
Rather scattered in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Central, North & West England.

This species is keyed out on Page 2260 in the Text Key.

Rubus saxatilis (Bramble, Stone)
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