West Highland Flora

Stone Bramble


Rubus saxatilis

 

Rubus saxatilis

Photo © Carl Farmer
23 Sep 2001 Suardal, Skye

Occasional on rocks, particularly limestone

Flower diameter c 9 mm, fruit c 10 mm across

ID: Like Bramble but low and creeping, leaves always trefoil, spines very weak and often absent from stretches of stem, fruit with larger and fewer segments, no more than 6 (the one in the pic on left has just 1; this is a tatty and late specimen but is the only fruit pic I have at present.)

Other features: Petals no longer than sepals.  Plant spreads by long creeping runners which root and produce the short upright flowering stems.

 

Rubus saxatilis

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 May 2003 Scorrybreac, Skye
Lower left flower 11 mm across

  Rubus saxatilis

Photo © Carl Farmer
4 May 2002 Suardal, Skye
 

Flowers after petals fall   Young leaves


  Rubus saxatilis

Photo © Carl Farmer
23 Sep 2001 Suardal, Skye
 

 
  Mature leaves  
     

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