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Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim.

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'Rubus phoenicolasius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rubus/rubus-phoenicolasius/). Accessed 2025-01-17.

Genus

Common Names

  • Wineberry

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
glandular
Bearing glands.
leaflet
Leaf-like segment of a compound leaf.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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

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'Rubus phoenicolasius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rubus/rubus-phoenicolasius/). Accessed 2025-01-17.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The Japanese wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius, is a vigorous shrub which can form extensive, dense thickets. Marly garden, Blandain, Belgium. 07 July 2014. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

A deciduous shrub making spreading stems 8 to 10 ft long in favourable situations; the stems are biennial, round, and together with the branches and leaf-stalks are covered densely with reddish, gland-tipped bristles mixed with which are a few slender prickles. Leaves 5 to 7 in. long, composed of three leaflets. The terminal leaflet is stalked, 2 to 4 in. long, roundish or broadly ovate, the base rounded or heart-shaped, the margins coarsely toothed and lobed; the side leaflets differ only in being obliquely ovate, stalkless, and much smaller; all are sparsely hairy above, white-felted beneath. Flowers in terminal racemes, the chief feature being the calyx, which is covered with glandular hairs, and measures 11⁄2 in. across, the five segments being very narrow and pointed; petals 1⁄4 in. or less in length, pink. Fruits conical, 3⁄4 in. long, bright red, sweet and juicy. Bot. Mag., t. 6479.

Native of Japan, Korea and N. China; introduced about 1876. This raspberry is hardy at Kew, bearing fruit regularly in the open, but it would probably succeed better against a wall. The species is noteworthy, not only for its fruits, but also for its excessively bristly stems, its tiny petals, and large star-shaped calyx which persists and spreads out beneath the fruit. It flowers in June under glass, a few weeks later out-of-doors.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The stems of Rubus phoenicolasius, together with the branches and leaf-stalks, are covered with reddish bristles. Meise Botanic Garden (number 20040079–73), Belgium. 15 October 2010. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The density of the reddish bristles and the color of the stems are variable on Rubus phoenicolasius. Marly garden, Blandain, Belgium. 07 July 2014. Image Guillaume.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The chief feature of Rubus phoenicolasius is perhaps the calyx which is covered with glandular purple hairs. Marly garden, Blandain, Belgium. 07 July 2014. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The compound leaves of Rubus phoenicolasius are white-felted beneath. Meise Botanic Garden (number 20040079–73), Belgium. 17 August 2013. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

The foliage of Rubus phoenicolasius can turn bright orange during autumn. Meise Botanic Garden (number 20040079–73), Belgium. 15 October 2010. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

Rubus phoenicolasius develop terminal racemes of bright red, sweet and juicy edible fruits. Meise Botanic Garden (number 20040079–73), Belgium. 17 August 2013. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

Close up of the calyx of Rubus phoenicolasius, which remain attractive after the fruit has fallen. Meise Botanic Garden (number 20040079–73), Belgium. 17 August 2013. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Rubus phoenicolasius

Rubus phoenicolasius is a noteworthy species, not only for its edible fruits, but also for its reddish bristly stems. Parc de La Feuillerie, Celles, Belgium. 09 May 2009. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

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