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Rubus spectabilis
| Family |
| Rosaceae |
| Genus |
| Rubus |
| Species |
| spectabilis |
| Type |
| Shrub (deciduous) |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 7b - 8a |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H5 |
| Temperature (°C) |
| -15 - (-10) |
| Temperature (°F) |
| 5 - 14 |
| Height |
| 1 - 4 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| Forests, swamps and streambanks in lowlands. |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Short, lateral and leafy branchlets that hold the flowers. The stems are tall, thicket-forming and are erect to arching. |
| Leaf Description |
| Alternate, deciduous, pinnately compound leaves that are 7 - 22 cm long. 3 leaflets that are egg-shaped, 3 - 15 cm long and shallowly lobed and doubled-saw-toothed with a sharply pointed tip. |
| Flower Description |
| Inflorescence of mostly 1 - 2 stalked, nodding flowers on branchlets. The flowers are bowl-shaped with 5 petals that are spreading, elliptic to egg-shaped and are 10 - 25 cm long. |
| Fruit Description |
| Drupelets that appear in clusters and are berry-like and 1.5 - 2 cm long. |
| Colour Description |
| The leaves are green and pale green on the underside. The fruit is yellow or dark red. The flowers are a reddish-purple. The bark is a yellowish-brown. |
| Texture Description |
| The leaves are smooth to sparsely hairy. The drupelets are smooth. The bark has a shredding texture. |
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