Rubus holandrei

Rubus holandrei is a European apomictic blackberry microspecies of the highly polymorphic Rubus fruticosus aggregate (family Rosaceae), occurring across central and western Europe in hedgerows, deciduous woodland margins, scrub and rough grassland. It is a robust, semi-evergreen, scrambling shrub with biennial canes; first-year primocanes are stout, arching, bluntly angled, reddish-tinged in sun and armed with stout, slightly curved prickles of fairly uniform size on the angles. The palmately compound leaves usually have five elliptic to obovate, finely doubly serrate leaflets, dark green above and softly grey-tomentose beneath, the terminal leaflet long-stalked and abruptly acuminate. Flowering canes in their second year carry leafy, pyramidal panicles of pink-flushed white flowers about 2 to 3 centimetres across in summer, with five spreading petals, numerous stamens scarcely exceeding the styles, and reflexed sepals. The aggregate drupes are firm, glossy black blackberries 1 to 2 centimetres long, sweet when fully ripe.