Rubus laciniatus Willd.

Cutleaf blackberry (en), Ronce laciniée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Rubus

Characteristics

Shrubs, 1–20 dm, armed. Stems ?biennial?, arching, sometimes creeping, glabrate to moderately hairy, sparsely to densely sessile-to short-stipitate-glandular, not or weakly pruinose; prickles moderately dense to dense, suberect to retrorse or hooked, stout, 2–8 mm, broad-based. Leaves evergreen to late-deciduous, ternate or palmately compound; stipules filiform, 5–15 mm; leaflets 3–5, terminal ovate to elliptic, 6–12 × 7–12 cm, base rounded to cordate, usually deeply, rarely shallowly, lobed, margins coarsely serrate to doubly serrate, apex acuminate to short-attenuate, abaxial surfaces with hooked prickles primarily on midvein, moderately to densely hairy, eglandular or moderately sessile-to short-stipitate-glandular primarily on midvein. Inflorescences terminal, 5–25-flowered, thyrsiform. Pedicels: prickles moderate to dense, erect to reflexed, densely hairy, moderately to densely sessile-to short-stipitate-glandular. Flowers bisexual; petals white to pink, elliptic to obovate, 8–15 mm; filaments filiform; ovaries usually apically hairy. Fruits black, globose to subcylindric, 1–1.5 cm; drupelets 25–60, strongly coherent, separating with torus attached. 2n = 28.
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Robust scrambling shrub; primocanes arching, greenish purple or purple, sharply angled and ± flat or concave between, with few to numerous subsessile glands, otherwise glabrous or sparsely clothed in simple and stellate hairs; armature of many, stout, ± falcate prickles on angles. Young stems sparsely to moderately hairy and glandular. Leaflets 5, sparsely pilose to glabrous on upper surface, sparsely to densely pilose on veins and sometimes also tomentose on lower surface, 1-2-pinnatisect to pinnate and pinnatisect, the segments remotely toothed; terminal leaflet lamina ovate-triangular, acuminate, 50-100 × 40-110 mm, with petiolule c. 1/2 length of lamina. Stipules linear. Infl. moderately hairy, with subsessile glands. Sepals attenuate, sometimes with longer expanded apex, usually toothed, tomentose and with longer simple hairs, with many pricklets. Petals rounded to acuminate, sometimes coarsely toothed, smooth, pale pink or white. Anthers glabrous.
A prickly trailing plant. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaflets are smaller than Rubus fruticosus and are almost triangle shaped. The leaflet at the end is usually the largest and is deeply lobed. There are teeth around these lobes. The fruit are black when ripe. Thornless kinds have been produced.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination
Spread endozoochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.3
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Not known in a truly wild situation, the plant has become established along woodland edges, semiopen woods, rocky and/or moist soil, open areas, often disturbed, roadsides; at elevations up to 1,800 metres through much of N. America.
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It is a temperate plant. Tasmania Herbarium.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 4-5
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-7

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw. They are also used for jellies, jams and pies.
Uses cover plant dye food medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) 14 - 20
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Rubus laciniatus world distribution map, present in Canada, France, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:737860-1
WFO ID wfo-0000984132
COL ID 4TKMN
BDTFX ID 58222
INPN ID 119171
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Rubus laciniatus Rubus vulgaris f. laciniatus Rubus vulgaris var. laciniatus Rubus corylifolius var. laciniatus Rubus bifrons var. laciniatus