Rubus crataegifolius
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Rubus crataegifolius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Rubus adenophorus
- Rubus amabilis
- Rubus biflorus
- Rubus caesius
- Rubus calycinoides
- Rubus chroosepalus
- Rubus cissoides
- Rubus cockburnianus
- Rubus corchorifolius
- Rubus coreanus
- Rubus deliciosus
- Rubus flagelliflorus
- Rubus flosculosus
- Rubus henryi
- Rubus hispidus
- Rubus hupehensis
- Rubus ichangensis
- Rubus idaeus
- Rubus illecebrosus
- Rubus irenaeus
- Rubus koehneanus
- Rubus kuntzeanus
- Rubus laciniatus
- Rubus lambertianus
- Rubus lasiostylus
- Rubus lineatus
- Rubus malifolius
- Rubus mesogaeus
- Rubus nepalensis
- Rubus × nobilis
- Rubus occidentalis
- Rubus odoratus
- Rubus palmatus
- Rubus parkeri
- Rubus parviflorus
- Rubus parvifolius
- Rubus parvus
- Rubus pedunculosus
- Rubus phoenicolasius
- Rubus playfairianus
- Rubus setchuenensis
- Rubus spectabilis
- Rubus subornatus
- Rubus thibetanus
- Rubus trianthus
- Rubus tricolor
- Rubus trifidus
- Rubus ulmifolius
An erect, deciduous shrub of stiff habit, 6 to 8 ft high, with stout biennial stems branched towards the top, grooved and armed with small scattered prickles. Leaves on the barren shoots of the year, large, palmately three- or five-lobed, 5 to 8 in. across, heart-shaped at the base, sharply and often doubly toothed, downy beneath; stalks and midrib prickly; leaves of the flowering twigs much smaller, usually three-lobed. Flowers 3⁄4 to 1 in. across; produced in clusters terminating short twigs; petals white, prettily crimped at the margins; calyx segments lanceolate, much decurved. Fruits the size of a small raspberry, red.
Native of China, Korea, and Japan. The epithet crataegifolius is only appropriate to the small leaves of the flowering twigs; on the barren, first-year stems they are more like those of a vine or maple, and in good soil are sometimes of very large size – 8 to 12 in. across.