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Boulay's Bramble - Rubus boulayi

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Species Description

Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland:

Robust, slightly glandular. Stem very obtuse-angled, striate, glabrescent, with some pricklets becoming brownish and dull purple; prickles numerous, strong-based, subulate, scattered round the stem; leaflets 5, entire-based, glabrous above, pubescent to greyish felted beneath, serrulate or serrate-dentate, terminal leaflet elliptic-obovate, cuspidate. Panicle long, leafy, narrow, interrupted below, branches short, deeply divided, semi-erect; all leaflets obovate-subcuneate, finely serrate-dentate, prickles numerous. Flowers white or tinged pink. Calyx closely white felted and pubescent, slightly glandular. Carpels pilose. Receptacle pilose.

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Brambles of the British Isles

Kew (as R. postumus)

GBIF (as R. postumus)

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