Rubus amphimalacus

Rubus amphimalacus is a bramble of the family Rosaceae, one of the many apomictic microspecies that make up the European Rubus fruticosus aggregate (subgenus Rubus, section Rubus). It is a scrambling, arching shrub with biennial, woody, prickle-armed canes that root at the tips. The leaves are palmately compound with three to five toothed, often soft-hairy leaflets that are green above and paler beneath. The five-petalled flowers, white to pale pink, are borne in terminal panicles and are followed by the familiar aggregate 'blackberry' fruit of many small drupelets, ripening from red to glossy black. Like other members of the aggregate it is largely apomictic, producing genetically uniform populations, and grows in hedgerows, woodland margins, scrub and rough ground in Europe.