Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Chinese Bramble, Rubus tricolor
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Chinese Bramble
Rubus tricolor
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering: June-August. Semi-evergreen prostrate shrub. Introduced.

White flowers are single or in terminal racemes but are frequently absent. The red fruit is edible but tasteless. Dark-green glossy leaves are obvate, either entire or with 3-5 shallow lobes, and white-hairy underneath. The creeping and arching shoots are covered in red-brown bristles and have rooting tips. Height to 60cm, spread several metres.

A garden escape or discard. Frequently planted for ground cover and can be invasive on roadsides, wasteground and in hedges and woods

Chinese Bramble, Rubus tricolor

Chinese Bramble, Rubus tricolor
Chinese Bramble, Rubus tricolor

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