Rubus tephrodes

Botanical Description

Rubus tephrodes is a deciduous shrub producing each year a cluster of sparsely-prickly, biennial, scrambling stems from a woody rootstock; the plants can be 300 - 400cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The stems only produce leaves in their first year, producing flower and fruit-bearing branches in their second year of growth and then dying after fruiting. Plants can form dense thickets in the wild. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and a medicine.