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Rubus ulmifolius is a species of wild blackberry known by the English common name elmleaf blackberry or thornless blackberry and the Spanish common name zarzamora.It is native to Europe and North Africa, and has also become naturalized in parts of the United States (especially California), Australia, and southern South America.
Blackberry Blackberries Halved blackberry. Rubus fruticosus L. is the ambiguous name of a European blackberry species in the genus Rubus (part of the rose family). The name has been interpreted in several ways: The species represented by the type specimen of Rubus fruticosus L., which is also the type specimen of the genus Rubus. [1]
Blackberry plants were used for traditional medicine by Greeks, other European peoples, and aboriginal Americans. [21] A 1771 document described brewing blackberry leaves, stem, and bark for stomach ulcers. [21] Blackberry fruit, leaves, and stems have been used to dye fabrics and hair. Native Americans have even been known to use the stems to ...
On the other hand, species in the other Rubus subgenera (such as the raspberries) are generally distinct, or else involved in more routine one-or-a-few taxonomic debates, such as whether the European and American red raspberries are better treated as one species or two (in this case, the two-species view is followed here, with R. idaeus and R ...
Rubus argutus is a North American species of prickly bramble in the rose family. It is a perennial plant native to the eastern and south-central United States. Common names are sawtooth blackberry [ 2 ] or tall blackberry after its high growth.
A cultivar of this species named the 'Aughinbaugh' blackberry was a parent of the loganberry. R. ursinus is also a second-generation parent of the boysenberry and the marionberry, or 'Marion' blackberry. [10] 'Wild Treasure' has the fruit size and flavor of the wild species, but without prickles, and the berries are machine harvestable.
Rubus pensilvanicus, known commonly as Pennsylvania blackberry, is a prickly bramble native to eastern and central North America from Newfoundland south to Georgia, west as far as Ontario, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas. The species is also established as a naturalized plant in California. [2] [3]
Rubus bifrons, the European blackberry or Himalayan blackberry, [1] is a European species of flowering plant in the rose family. It is widespread across much of Europe [2] and naturalized in scattered parts of North America. [3] It is sometimes considered to include the species R. armeniacus. [1] Rubus bifrons is a spiny shrub up to 50 cm (20 ...