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Synonyms: Rubus ursinus Cham. & Schltdl. APNI*

Description: Spreading or climbing shrub to 5 m high when growing through supporting vegetation. Primocane stems rounded or scarcely angled, glabrous or with sparse non-glandular pilose hairs, prickles 3–6 mm long, not confined to angles. Flowering stems from the leaf axils of the floricane.

Primocane leaves pinnately compound, with 3, 5 or 7 leaflets, terminal leaflet 5.5–8 cm long, 3.5–6.5 cm wide; leaflets with sparse pilose hairs below, broadly-ovate to elliptic, petiole 3–8.5 cm long. Floricane leaves at base of flowering panicles consisting of 3 or 5 leaflets, lower surface of leaflets as for primocane leaflets, terminal leaflet mostly 4–10.5 cm long and 2.5–10.5 cm wide, petiole 3–6.5 cm long.

Inflorescence subcorymbose with 6–12 flowers. The first formed flowers usually solitary in the leaf axils of 3-leaflet leaves. Sepals rarely with prickles. Petals 12–18 mm long, 7–9 mm wide, elliptic, white, not crumpled. Stamens shorter than styles.

Fruit ovoid to oblong, initially green, ripening dark red to dull black.

Flowering: mainly late spring and summer.

Distribution and occurrence: not common. A stabilised hybrid between Rubus idaeus, raspberry and Rubus ursinus, the former being a native of Eurasia and the latter a native of the western coastal ranges of the U.S.A.

Found in grasslands to forests.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *ST
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.

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Distinguished by its pinnate primocane leaves, subcorymbose inflorescences and fruit ripening dark red to dull black. Introduced for its edible fruit.