Rubus setchuenensis

Botanical Description

Rubus setchuenensis is a large, straggling, deciduous shrub producing each year a cluster of unarmed, biennial stems from a woodt rootstock; the plant can grow 200 - 500cm 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 in their first year, forming flower-bearing branches in the second year and dying after fruiting. The plant can form dense, impenetrable thickets in the wild[ 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 plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food an a medicine. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental in gardens.