Rosaceae FAMILY

Rubus salteri

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Rubus salteri is a deciduous shrub producing each year a cluster of long, decumbent, sparsely prickly, biennial stems from a woody rootstock. The stems scramble over the ground and low-growing plants. The stems only produce leaves, and do not flower, in their first year of growth; forming flowering branches in their second year and then dying after fruiting The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurope - Britain.

HabitatEndemic to England, growing in woods and on downs in Hereford (Winforton wood) and the Isle of Wight (south-east corner of the island)[ 150 Title Handbook of the Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland. Publication Author Watson. W. C. R. Publisher Year ISBN Description There are hundreds of slightly differing species of the common blackberry growing in Britain. This is a book for the dedicated. ].