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29th March 2018, a garden, Broad Oak, Brede, Rye, Sussex | Photo: © Danny Coope |
The Salmonberry shrub. |
29th March 2018, a garden, Broad Oak, Brede, Rye, Sussex | Photo: © Danny Coope |
The leaves have yet to open properly. Several flowers have opened, and others in dangling buds yet to open. |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
This shrub grows to 2m in height and has weak untroublesome spines which are mainly lower down the stems. There are four rather similar berried Rubus species to Salmonberry, of which Salmonberry is the more frequently encountered, especially in Northern Ireland. The flower colour is reddish-purple to a deep pink, and droop more-or-less downwards. |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
With 5 large triangular sepals and 5 curved petals folded along the centreline. |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Leaf veins visible against the light. |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Leaf teeth lacerate (unevenly cut with smaller teeth on larger teeth). |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
In the centre a dense ring of stamens surrounds a central cluster of slightly shorter styles with discoidal stigmas at the ends. |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The leaves are roughly diamond shaped and in clusters of three (ternate). |
13th May 2015, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The petals have dropped off leaving just the stamens and styles within the 5 triangular sepals. The orange fruit will develop later in the centre beneath the styles. |
14th June 2018, a garden, Broad Oak, Brede, Rye, Sussex | Photo: © Danny Coope |
The fruit is orange, rather than the pinkish salmon-colour which 'salmonberry' might imply. It consista of a drupe containing a small open cluster of drupelets, each one containing a single, hard and pitted seed. Each druplet has its longish stigma/style still attached at the apex. A concolorous skirt is directed upwardly with its numerous anthers still attached. |
Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature :
Salmonberry is a neophyte which has naturalised in hedges and woods across Britain. It is in the Rubus genus subgenus 5: Idaeobatus which contains other edible fruits such as Raspberry and
'Salmonberry' and 'False Salmonberry de-convolved':
Also according to Blamey, Fitter & Fitter 'Wild Flowers' book, Rubus spectabilis is called False Salmonberry. False Salmonberry should not now be used as the common name for Rubus spectabilis, but rather
A purple to dull-blue dye can be extracted from the fruit, which is surprising given its strikingly bright orange colour.
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Rubus | spectabilis | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Rosaceae |
Rubus (Brambles) |
Rose Family [Rosaceae] |