Rubus sulcatus

Botanical Description

Rubus sulcatus is a vigorous, deciduous shrub, producing each year a cluster of scrambling to arching, prickly, biennial stems from a woody rootstock[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. The stems only produce leaves in their first year, producing flower and fruit-bearing branches in their second yea of growth and then dying after fruiting. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.