Rubus idaeus
L. RaspberryErect shrub, suckering by adventitious buds from roots; stems 1–1.5 m long, terete, pruinose; young canes densely hairy, glabrescent with age, unarmed or bearing sparse, weak, more or less straight prickles to c. 1 mm long. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3–7, oblong or ovate, mostly 2–5 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, base cuneate to cordate, margins sharply and often deeply toothed, upper surface green, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, main veins pilose; stipules filiform. Flowers in short terminal or axillary racemes. Sepals tomentose, lanceolate, erect or spreading; petals ovate or elliptic, white. Fruiting head more or less globose, c. 10 mm diam.; fruit pubescent, red or orange, falling from receptacle when ripe. Flowers summer.
GleP, VVP, Gold, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also SA, NSW. Native of Europe. Collected at Andersons Creek near Mt Beenak, Yarrowee River at Ballarat and near Cumberland Falls near Marysville. Also occurs sporadically as a garden-escape.
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