Biology:Rubus bifrons

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Short description: Species of blackberry from Europe

Rubus bifrons
Flowers
Fruit
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Species:
R. bifrons
Binomial name
Rubus bifrons
Vest

Rubus bifrons is a species of blackberry in the rose family, native to central Europe.[1][2]

Rubus bifrons is a spiny shrub growing to 25–200 cm tall. The stems are biennial, arching, sometimes creeping, and red-brown to purple-brown. The leaves are palmately compound with three to five leaflets, green above, grey and hairy beneath, and have serrated margins. The flowers are white or pink, in clusters at the ends of branches. The mature fruit is black.[3][4][5]

It is widespread across much of Europe, from France east to Ukraine, and Germany south to Italy.[1][2][3] and naturalised locally further north in Europe in Norway and Sweden, in Australia, and in parts of North America.[1]

It has sometimes been confused with or considered to include the species Rubus armeniacus,[6] a related species from the Caucasus.[7]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15546639 entry