Rose Family [Rosaceae] |
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Berries: (edible, acidic) |
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4th June 2013, Bavaria | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The flowering stems reach 40cm and are erect. The leaves are ternate (in 3's, with the end leaflet being larger and on a much longer stalk. The leaflets are ovate to elliptical in outline with irregular teeth. |
4th June 2013, Bavaria | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The flowering stems are erect and up to 40cm high. The 5 petals are white and between 8 and 15mm across but quite narrow themselves and directed upwardly. The sepals are pale-green and stretched out horizontally. |
4th June 2013, Bavaria | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The stems have hairs and very weak prickles. Unopened flowers are wrapped up in pale-green sepals with short dark-green extensions at their extremity. |
12th Aug 2015, Arrochymore, Eastern side Loch Lomond, Scotland. | Photo: © Maggie McCallum |
The fruits in a small tight group of 6 at the end of a flower stalk. There are usually between 1 to 6 in a group.
The leaflets are in triplets, with the side-lobes shorter and narrower than the central lobe (at least in some of these specimens). |
12th Aug 2015, Arrochymore, Eastern side Loch Lomond, Scotland. | Photo: © Maggie McCallum |
The fruits are round and shiny red and some may even sometimes be translucent at certain times of the year. |
12th Aug 2015, Arrochymore, Eastern side Loch Lomond, Scotland. | Photo: © Maggie McCallum |
4th June 2013, Bavaria | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
A new end leaf, still unfolding. |
4th June 2013, Bavaria | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The stem supporting the leaf has a rectangular groove or channel on the top surface. There is one weak prickle on show. |
Not to be semantically confused with : any of the many Stoneworts such as The berries are red, edible but slightly acrid and in drupes (small groups on a single flower) of between 1 and 6. It is native and grows in woods and also screes and mountain slopes on basic (alkaline) soils, occurring rather scattered in Central and the North and West of England, also in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Hybridises with Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
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Rose Family [Rosaceae] |