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Rubus niveus
Also called Hill raspberry, Mysore raspberry, Ceylon Raspberry
Rubus niveus, the snowpeaks or Mysore raspberry, is a scrambling shrub from southern Asia grown for its edible black raspberry-like fruit. Its key to growing is cool temperate conditions and room to sprawl, as it is invasive in Hawaii and the Galápagos.
Rubus niveus (Mysore raspberry, Ceylon raspberry and hill raspberry) is a species of Rubus native to southern Asia.
It is native to southern Asia; from Afghanistan, east through India—covering the Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—and across to Tibet, southern and north-central China and Taiwan, and south to Indo-China (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) and Malesia (in Java and). In the Philippines, several entrepreneurs have been found selling seedlings ang growing them in the cities and municipaities of Tuba, Baguio, and La Trinidad in the province of Benguet
Rubus niveus is cultivated for its edible fruit, which potentially have gastroprotective, antioxidative, and nutraceutical properties.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rubus niveus 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.
