Rubus leucodermis Douglas ex Hook.

Shrubs, 10–30 dm, armed. Stems ?biennial?, ascending, often arching, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, eglandular or sparsely to densely short-stipitate-glandular, strongly pruinose; prickles moderate to dense, erect or curved, slender to stout, 4–8 mm, usually broad-based, sometimes narrow-based. Leaves deciduous, palmately compound or ternate; stipules filiform, 5–10 mm; ?petiole with hooked or erect prickles, glabrous, eglandular or sparsely to densely sessile-to short-stipitate-glandular; lateral leaflets stalked, at least 2 larger ones, often with prickles, glabrous, eglandular or stipitate-glandular?; leaflets 3–5(–7), terminal ovate to lanceolate, 6–10 × 3–6 cm, base cordate to truncate, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, margins serrate to doubly serrate, apex acuminate, abaxial surface sometimes with prickles on midrib and some lateral veins, glabrous to strongly white-tomentose, usually eglandular. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, (1–)3–10(–12)-flowered, flat-topped cymiform or umbelliform. Pedicels: prickles sparse to dense, hooked or erect, puberulent, eglandular or sparsely to densely sessile-or short-stipitate-glandular. Flowers bisexual; petals ?erect, then ascending?, white, oblong to oblanceolate, 3–6(–8) mm; filaments laminar; ovaries pubescent, rarely glabrous. Fruits reddish purple to nearly black, depressed globose to conic, 1–2 cm; drupelets 20–60, coherent, separating from torus. 2n = 14.

Moist to dry, open, often rocky areas, shaded roadsides, sheltered openings, thickets, open forests; at elevations up to 2,700 metres.

The fruit are eaten raw. They are also dried or made into jams and sauces. The leaves are used for tea. The young tender shoots are eaten.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.