| Rubus niveus Thunb. |
| ROSACEAE |
| hill raspberry, Java bramble, mysore raspberry, snowpeaks raspberry, Ceylon raspberry |
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Invasive, Problem species |
| Origin: Eurasia |
| Growth Form: Shrub |
| Plant Description: Shrubs; stems up to 20 dm long, tomentulose when young or glabrous and glaucous, covered with stout, hooked prickles 3-7 mm long, their bases usually longitudinally elongated, bark of older stems not shredding. Leaves pinnately compound, leaflets 5-9, elliptic-ovate to elliptic, 2.5-6 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, the terminal one often broadly ovate, more or less lobed on one side, and up to 5 cm wide, upper surface glabrous, lower surface densely white tomentose, margins serrate, petiolules 0-0.1 cm long, petioles and rachis usually with curved prickles. Flowers in short, terminal, cymose panicles, densely tomentose and with scattered prickles, pedicels 6-12 mm long; petals rose purple, broadly obovate to suborbicular, ca 4-5 mm long. Fruit dark red, becoming reddish black, subglobose, ca. 1 cm long, white tomentulose. |
| Key Features: white stem |
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Photo - leaves/stem
K Braun, Swaziland's Alien Plants Database
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| KEY |
 Confirmed (herbarium specimen) |
 Visual record |
 Suspected |
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