Rubus leucostachys

Scrambling or trailing, semi-deciduous shrubs; stems sometimes arching, 1–2 m long, angled, faces concave, purplish, covered with a very close, fine white pubescence, sometimes with scattered stalked glandular hairs; prickles more or less equal, straight or recurved, mainly on the angles,  to c. 10 mm long. Leaves 3- or 5-foliate; leaflets elliptic to broad ovate or obovate, mostly 4–8 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, base cuneate to cordate, margins sharply toothed, upper surface green, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose with numerous pilose hairs especially on the main veins; stipules linear, pilose. Flowers in terminal, narrowly cylindric racemes; axis and peduncles tomentose and pilose, rarely with a few glandular hairs. Sepals white-tomentose, usually unarmed, reflexed in fruit; petals obovate, usually pink; stamens exceeding styles. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 15 mm diam.; fruit glabrescent, black, not falling from the receptacle when ripe.   Flowers summer.