Rosaceae FAMILY

Rubus caesius

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Rubus caesius is a deciduous shrub producing each year a cluster of arching, prickly, biennial stems from a woody rootstock. Growing 50 - 150cm tall, the stems only produce leaves, and do not flower, in their first year, forming flowering branches in their second year and then dying after fruiting. When the tips of one-year stems touch the ground they produce roots and develop into new plants, thus forming a thicket of growth[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is sometimes cultivated for its fruit, especially in the Caucasus[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ], and has been used in plant breeding programmes to instill greater frost tolerance..

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - Norway south to Portugal, east through Russia to western Siberia. central Asiia western China, through Turkey to Lebanon and Afghanistan

HabitatHedgerows, amongst shrubs and in rough dry meadowland, usually on basic soils[ 1 Title RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 Publication Author F. Chittendon. Publisher Oxford University Press Year 1951 ISBN - Description Comprehensive listing of species and how to grow them. Somewhat outdated, it has been replaced in 1992 by a new dictionary (see [ 200 ]). , 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. ]. Forests, ravines, among shrubs, clearings, banks of rivers and streams, forest and inundated meadows, gardens, orchards, roadsides, hedges[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].