Rosa rubus Lévl. & Van.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Rosa rubus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rosa/rosa-rubus/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Synonyms

  • R. ernestii Stapf ex Bean
  • R. ernestii f. velutescens & f. nudescens Stapf
  • R. moschata var. hupehensis Pampan.

Glossary

acuminate
Narrowing gradually to a point.
acute
Sharply pointed.
article
(in Casuarinaceae) Portion of branchlet between each whorl of leaves.
bud
Immature shoot protected by scales that develops into leaves and/or flowers.
entire
With an unbroken margin.
exserted
Protruding; pushed out.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
herbarium
A collection of preserved plant specimens; also the building in which such specimens are housed.
inflorescence
Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
ovoid
Egg-shaped solid.
rachis
Central axis of an inflorescence cone or pinnate leaf.
receptacle
Enlarged end of a flower stalk that bears floral parts; (in some Podocarpaceae) fleshy structure bearing a seed formed by fusion of lowermost seed scales and peduncle.
serrate
With saw-like teeth at edge. serrulate Minutely serrate.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Rosa rubus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rosa/rosa-rubus/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A vigorous shrub of spreading or semi-scandent habit, 8 to 15 ft high; young shoots hairy or almost glabrous, armed with hooked spines, often purplish. Leaves 4 to 9 in. long, composed usually of five leaflets, reduced to three under the inflorescence; rachis prickly, slightly downy arid glandular. Leaflets elliptic-ovate to oblong-obovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 112 to 312 in. long (longer on sterile shoots), simply and sometimes deeply serrate, greyish and hairy beneath, rarely quite glabrous, sometimes strongly tinged with purple when young. Flowers white, about 112 in. across, with broad, overlapping petals, borne in late June, July or early August, in dense clusters. Pedicels short (barely 1 in. long) and moderately thick, they and the receptacle clad with hairs and stalked glands. Sepals not much longer than the ovoid flower-bud, downy and glandular on the back, entire or with a few slender appendages. Styles united in a shortly exserted downy column. Fruits globular, 38 to 12 in. wide, red.

Native of western and central China; discovered by Henry about 1886, but the type of the species was collected in Kweichow. Wilson introduced it from Hupeh under two numbers: W.473c, with leaflets velvety beneath, as in the type of R. rubus, and W.666a (R. ernestii f. nudescens Stapf), in which they are nearly glabrous. It was also raised from seeds collected by Farrer in Kansu (Farrer 786) but his no. 291, distributed as R. rubus, is R. filipes. Although hardy and vigorous, with attractively tinted young foliage, R. rubus has always been rare in gardens.

R. cerasocarpa Rolfe is very near to R. rubus and probably no more than a glabrous form of it.

Footnotes

In the article accompanying Bot. Mag., t. 8894, Dr Stapf argued that the name R. rubus should be dropped, on the grounds that Léveillé had described the styles as free, and proposed the name R. ernestii in its place. But the name R. rubus is accepted by Render (Journ. Arn. Arb., Vol. 13, p. 312). The type of R. rubus in the Léveillé herbarium is R. rubus as understood here.