Rubus chrysophyllus Reinw. ex Miq.

Shrubs, up to 4 m high, overhanging branches up to 10 m long. Stems with a dense yellowish indumentum of short, curly hairs and long, (semi-) appressed, straight or wavy hairs, glabrate, prickles few, short, or twigs unarmed. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 7-22 by 7-18 cm, shallowly 3-7-lobed, base truncate to shallowly cordate, margins grossly and unevenly serrate, apex acute, stiff-coriaceous, nervation pedate with 6-9 pairs of nerves, venation reticulate, on upper surface the squarish intervenial fields distinctly bullately raised, upper surface soon glabrous, lower surface with a dense, closed felt of short, curly hairs and on nerves and veins many straight, (semi-)appressed hairs, distinctly two-coloured when dry. Petiole 2-7 cm long. Stipules often persistent, orbicular in outline, digitately and deeply divided into 6-8 lobes, the largest of those pinnatifid, 1-1.5 cm long, hairy. Inflorescence panicle-like, a compound raceme with di-or monochasial last branches, up to 12 side-branches, the lower ones in the axils of leaves, the entire thyrse up to 35 cm long, side-branches up to 17 cm long. Bracts large, deeply dentate. Pedicels l-2(-4) cm long, densely hairy as all axes in the inflorescence. Flowers bisexual, flower buds ovoid, pointed. Hypanthium cup-shaped, (4-)5-7 mm across, densely hairy outside with long, straight hairs hiding the smaller curly ones. Sepals triangular, pointed, outer ones (4-) 6-8 hy 3-6 mm, inner ones narrower, uncovered margins with (2-)3-5 teeth, up to 1.5 mm long, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals orbicular to elliptic, 3-7.5 by 2.5-5.5 mm, apex notched, white. Stamens 50-100, glabrous, filaments up to 4 mm, anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long. Pistils 50-90, ovaries glabrous, on elevated, densely hairy torus, style up to 5.5 mm long. Collective fruits globular, up to 7 mm diam. when dry, sepals closing after anthesis. Fruits curved, c. 2.5 by 1.5 mm when dry, glabrous, yellow to orange, sometimes red, mesocarp juicy, a thin layer when dry.

Light forest and more open places like thickets, forest edges, clearings, secondary bush, and near craters, at elevations from 900-2,950 metres..

Uses The fruits seem to be delicious.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.