Common name: Chinese Bramble
Scientific name: Rubus tricolor 三色莓
Genus: Rubus 懸鉤子屬*
Family: Rosaceae 薔薇科, rose family
Remarks*:
Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD). It is a native of China (in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces). It was first cultivated in 1908 and was then reported in the wild in 1976.
Date: 3rd July
An evergreen, scrambling, creeping shrub. This is a very young plant just appear above the soil.
The stem can arch between 30 cm and 60 cm high.
A branch in search of places to root. The stem are full of red hairs.
The tip of the stem where new leaves are forming. It could root when they touch the ground.
Tomentous stem, with dense yellow-brown (red) bristles. A pair of stipules could be seen above.
The older stem turned red.
Glossy green leaf (some with shallowly lobes), unevenly coarsely sharply serrate.
Pale green underneath, with white hairs (red hairs for mature leaves).
Flower buds on the stem.
Flower buds solitary or few-flowered clusters.
Flower buds at later stage.
Flower buds with five red-haired sepals.
A dropping white flower.
Side view of the flower showing the green sepals with red hairs.
5 white petals, 5 green triangular sepals. Photo enlarged below to see the details.
Numerous stamens outside and styles inside. The anthers are withering.
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