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Silky Leaved Berry

Rubus lineatus

Silky Leaved Berry
Photo: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0

Rubus lineatus is an Asian bramble shrub grown for its large silvery-white-backed leaves and edible-looking autumn fruit. It needs full sun to ripen fruit and room to spread, as it suckers freely up to about 4 m.

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during dry spells, keeping the soil moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loam or garden soil.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; tolerates cold winters, but protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Nepal to SC. China and W. & S. Malesia
Climate
temperate

About

Rubus lineatus (syn. R. pulcherrimus) is an Asian species of bramble.

Where it grows

It is native to eastern and southern Asia, in Tibet, China (Yunnan), Bhutan, north east India (Sikkim), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal and north Vietnam.

Uses

The ripened fruits may be edible and the plant is cultivated as an ornamental for temperate climates.

Other Rubus plants

Garden dewberry · Allegheny blackberry · Arctic blackberry · Giant Blackberry · Rubus biflorus · Dewberry · Cloudberry · White Stemmed Bramble · Korean Bramble · Rubus coriaceus · Korean Raspberry · Holy Bramble

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rubus lineatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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