Rubus sanctus
Rubus sanctus
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Shrub without suckering roots, 1-2 m tall. Turions arching, rooting at the tips, angled and sulcate, pruinose, usually canescent-pubescent, armed with stout, flattened, triangular-based, straight or recurved prickles, eglandular. Flowering shoots similar but more densely hairy and with smaller prickles. Leaves pedate with 5 leaflets, or ternate, discolorous, glabrous to stellate-pubescent above, white-tomentose below; leaflets 1-2-dentate, lateral ones shortly petiolulate, terminal one 2,5-10 cm, 3-6 x petiolule, obovate to orbicular, rounded to very shortly and broadly acuminate, usually less than 6 cm; stipules linear-filiform, eglandular. Panicles long and usually lax, showy, sometimes leafy below, manyflowered, 10-25 x 3-10 cm. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, tomentellous, reflexed. Petals normally pink, obovate to suborbicular, 8-13 mm. Filaments equalling or shorter than the styles, usually pink; anthers pilose, pollen fertile. Carpels pilose. Drupelets black, numerous, small , scarcely juicy. Fl. 6-8. Open scrub, rocky slopes, banks of rivers,fixed dunes, coastal plains, waste places, s.l.-1250 m.
W. & C. Europe, Mediterranean area, Crimea, S.W. Asia, eastwards to Western Himalayas.
