Rubus

"Bramble" redirects here. For other uses, see Bramble (disambiguation).

Rubus
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Blackberry bush with ripe and unripe fruit
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Tribe: Rubeae
Genus: Rubus
L.[1]
Type species
Rubus fruticosus
L.[2]
Synonyms[3]
List
  • Ametron Raf.
  • Ampomele Raf.
  • Batidaea (Dumort.) Greene
  • Bossekia Neck. ex Greene
  • Calyctenium Greene
  • Cardiobatus Greene
  • Chamaemorus Hill
  • Comarobatia Greene
  • Cumbata Raf.
  • Cylactis Raf.
  • Dalibarda Kalm
  • Dyctisperma Raf.
  • Idaeobatus (Focke) Börner
  • Manteia Raf.
  • Melanobatus Greene
  • Oligacis Raf.
  • Oreobatus Rydb.
  • Parmena Greene
  • Psychrobatia Greene
  • Rubacer Rydb.
  • Selnorition Raf.

Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, commonly known as brambles.[3][4][5] Fruits of various species are known as raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, and bristleberries. It is a diverse genus, with the estimated number of Rubus species varying from 250 to over 1000, found across all continents except Antarctica.[6]

Most of these plants have woody stems with prickles like roses; spines, bristles, and gland-tipped hairs are also common in the genus. The Rubus fruit, sometimes called a bramble fruit, is an aggregate of drupelets. The term "cane fruit" or "cane berry" applies to any Rubus species or hybrid which is commonly grown with supports such as wires or canes, including raspberries, blackberries, and hybrids such as loganberry, boysenberry, marionberry and tayberry.[7] The stems of such plants are also referred to as canes.

  1. ^ "Rubus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  2. ^ "Rubus L.". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  3. ^ a b "Rubus L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Archived from the original on 31 March 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  4. ^ Brouillet, Luc (2014). "Rosaceae (subfam. Rosoideae) tribe Rubeae". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 9. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  5. ^ "the definition of bramble". Dictionary.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
  6. ^ Huang, Ti-Ran; Chen, Jian-Hui; Hummer, Kim E.; Alice, Lawrence A.; Wang, Wen-He; He, Yi; Yu, Sheng-Xiang; Yang, Ming-Feng; Chai, Tuan-Yao; Zhu, Xiang-Yun; Ma, Lan-Qing; Wang, Hong (April 2023). "Phylogeny of Rubus (Rosaceae): Integrating molecular and morphological evidence into an infrageneric revision". Taxon. 72 (2): 278–306. doi:10.1002/tax.12885. ISSN 0040-0262.
  7. ^ Klein, Carol (2009). Grow your own fruit. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-84533-434-5.