Rosaceae FAMILY

Rubus paniculatus

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Rubus paniculatus is a deciduous shrub, producing each year a cluster of scrambling, minutely-prickly, biennial stems up to 300cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. 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, and sometimes also as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeE. Asia - Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, China (Xizang, Yunnan)

HabitatShrubberies; at elevations from 1,500 - 2,900 metres from Pakistan to Bhutan[ 51 Title Flowers of the Himalayas. Publication Author Polunin. O. and Stainton. A. Publisher Oxford Universtiy Press Year 1984 ISBN - Description A very readable and good pocket guide (if you have a very large pocket!) to many of the wild plants in the Himalayas. Gives many examples of plant uses. ]. Damp shady ravines to 1,800 metres in Jaunsar and Tehri-Garhwal[ 158 Title Forest Flora of Chakrata, Dehra Dun and Saharanpur. Publication Author Gupta. B. L. Publisher Forest Research Institute Press Year 1945 ISBN - Description A good flora for the middle Himalayan forests, sparsly illustrated. Not really for the casual reader. ]. Mixed forests on slopes, ravines, streamsides; at elevations from 1,500 - 3,200 metres[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].