Western Herbalism Properties
Botanical Description
Rubus errabundus is a European bramble belonging to the Rubus fruticosus aggregate, a complex of apomictic microspecies in the Rosaceae. Like other members of the aggregate, it forms arching biennial canes armed with stout prickles, with palmately compound leaves of three to five toothed leaflets, white to pinkish five-petalled flowers in terminal panicles, and aggregate drupe fruits ripening from red to glossy black. It occurs in hedgerows, woodland margins, and waste ground across parts of north-western Europe. Microspecies of the R. fruticosus aggregate are not separately distinguished in herbal practice, and traditional Western herbal use treats the aggregate collectively (Grieve, 1931).
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