Cheeseberry
StarRubus ellipticus
Synonyms: Rubus tereticaulis subsp. ellipticus
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Ayurvedic and broader Himalayan folk practice the root decoction of Rubus ellipticus is used for colic, dysentery, and as a refrigerant in fevers, the astringent leaves for wound washing and oral infections, and the ripe fruit as a cooling tonic for indigestion; the plant ('Hisalu') is recorded in Indian materia-medica compendia (Khare, 2007).
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Botanical Description
Rubus ellipticus, the golden Himalayan raspberry (Nepali 'ainselu', Hindi 'hisalu'), is a vigorous, arching to scrambling evergreen shrub of the family Rosaceae growing 2-4 m tall, native to the Himalayan foothills and lower montane forests from Pakistan and India east through Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The stout, ridged stems are densely covered with stiff, reddish-brown bristles and scattered, slightly hooked prickles. Leaves are trifoliolate, with broadly elliptic leaflets 5-12 cm long, the terminal leaflet largest; the upper surface is sparsely hairy, the lower densely white-tomentose with red bristles along the main veins. Small white flowers about 1 cm across are clustered in short, dense, axillary or terminal panicles. The fruit is an aggregate of golden-yellow to apricot-coloured, sweet, juicy drupelets about 1 cm across that ripen in early summer and are widely gathered as a wild food. The species is invasive in Hawaii and parts of Africa.
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