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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : rubss

Scientific name: Rubus spp.

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Classification: Rosaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bramble

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Name per country: DE : Himbeere ; ES : zarza ; FR : ronce ; IT : rovo ; PT : silva ; EN : bramble ; NL : ; DK : brombær

Biological type: Perennial with stolons

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, more or less dentate.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-200 cm. Plant very variable in form.

- Stem prostrate or erect, armed with prickles.

- Leaves large, with 3-5 coarsely toothed leaflets, stipules joined to the stalk, bristly, sometimes red-brown-tinged.

- Flowers white, pink or red, solitary or in cymes. Calyx with 5 broadened teeth, not clasping the carpels.

- Fruits : blackberries reddish or blueish, fleshy, with a slight acid taste. Fruit easily divided in druplets. Seeds ovate spreading, 2-3 mm, reticulate.

- Very numerous species in the genus Rubus.

- Biological type: perennial with stolons.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Germany   Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Italy  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Portugal  Present    

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