Skye Flora

Bramble

Rubus fruticosus agg

Taxonomic note: This is an aggregate of a vast number of apomictic microspecies which are here treated as one.

Photo © Carl Farmer
23 Sep 2001 Broadford

Common in woods and scrub, and by roadsides.

Flower diameter c 2 cm

Skye ID: Prickles on leaves as well as on stems. Stem prickles stout, not easily crushable.

Other features: Long stems arch or creep and root at tips. Flowers can be white or pink.

	Photo © Carl Farmer 7 Apr 2002 Scorrybreac

	New shoot growing from axil of old leaf on arching stem


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