Rubus acuminatus Sm.

Ronce de Questier (fr), Ronce de Münter (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Rubus

Characteristics

A shrub. It climbs without tendrils. The leaves have stalks. They are oval to sword shaped. They taper to the tip. They have teeth around the edge and the base is rounded. The flowers are white. They occur in the axils of leaves as well as at the ends of branches. They are in loose, open flower clusters. The fruit are round. They are bright red.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

A subtropical plant. They grow throughout Nepal from 1000-2300 m altitude. They grow in moist, shady places in secondary forest. It grows in bamboo forests between 1,000-3,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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Moist, shady places in the forest, growing into the lower canopy. Thickets, bamboo thickets, sparsely forested slopes, stream sides, roadsides; at elevations from 1,000-3,000 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

The ripe fruit are eaten raw.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from root offshoots or seeds.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 14 - 20
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Images

Rubus acuminatus unspecified picture

Distribution

Rubus acuminatus world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:734853-1
WFO ID wfo-0001015852
COL ID 4TJBQ
BDTFX ID 57900
INPN ID 118929
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Synonyms

Rubus acuminatus Rubus betulinus Rubus acuminatus var. acuminatus

Lower taxons

Rubus acuminatus var. puberulus