Rubus caesius

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Rubus caesius
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Species:
R. caesius
Binomial name
Rubus caesius
L.
Synonyms [1]
  • Rubus caeruleusGilib.
  • Rubus coeruleusGilib.
  • Rubus humilisBubani
  • Rubus ligerinusGenev.
  • Rubus mitissimus Ripart ex Genev.
  • Rubus rivalisGenev.
  • Rubus sabulosusSudre
  • Selnorition cesius(L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Selnorition caesius(L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.

Rubus caesius is a Eurasian species of dewberry, known as the European dewberry. [2] Like other dewberries, it is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, related to the blackberry and raspberry. It is widely distributed across much of Europe and Asia from Ireland and Portugal as far east as Xinjiang Province in western China. [3] It has also become sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Argentina, Canada, and the United States. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Description

Rubus caesius fruit - Keila.jpg

Rubus caesius is similar to and often confused with forms of Rubus fruticosus . [3] It is a small shrub growing up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall with biennial stems which die after fruiting in their second year. It sends out long runners which root at the tip to form new plants. The stems are bluish-grey and sometimes prickly. The alternate leaves are hairy above and below. They are stalked and the leaf blades are palmate in shape, either consisting of three oval leaflets with serrated margins and acute points or just being three-lobed. The inflorescence is a loose cluster of several white flowers about 2.5 cm (1 in) in diameter. The calyx has five sepals and the corolla is composed of five spreading petals with finely toothed margins. There is a boss of stamens in the centre and there are several pistils. The fruit is an aggregate of several black, fleshy drupes with a bluish waxy bloom. The dewberry flowers from June to September. [8] [6]

Distribution and habitat

Rubus caesius most often inhabits areas with rocky, basic soil and light shade. [3] It is often found in forest margins, coppices, rocky broadleaf woods and waterside thickets. [9] The dewberry can hybridise with the raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and the stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis).


Genome

Alice et al., 2001 find R. caesius is a tetraploid blackberry which hybridises especially with R. idaeus and others of the genus. [10] Sochor et al., 2015 finds this species has produced many new European blackberry species by speciation by hybridisation with R. idaeus. [10] Carter et al., 2019 find maternal descent is probably from Rubus subg. Rubus. [10]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boysenberry</span> Hybrid species of berry

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raspberry</span> Edible fruit

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<i>Rubus idaeus</i> Red raspberry

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loganberry</span> Species of fruit and plant

The loganberry is a hybrid of the North American blackberry and the European raspberry.

<i>Rubus phoenicolasius</i> Berry and plant

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<i>Rubus occidentalis</i> Berry and plant

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<i>Rubus odoratus</i> Berry and plant

Rubus odoratus, the purple-flowered raspberry, flowering raspberry, or Virginia raspberry, is a species of Rubus, native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario and Wisconsin, and south along the Appalachian Mountains as far as Georgia and Alabama.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swamp dewberry</span> Berry and plant

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<i>Rubus strigosus</i> Species of vine

Rubus strigosus, the American red raspberry or American raspberry, is a species of Rubus native to much of North America. It was often treated as a variety or subspecies of the closely related Eurasian Rubus idaeus, but is now more commonly treated as a distinct species. Many of the commercial raspberry cultivars grown for their fruit derive from hybrids between R. strigosus and R. idaeus; see Raspberry for more details.

<i>Rubus pensilvanicus</i> Berry and plant

Rubus pensilvanicus, known commonly as Pennsylvania blackberry, is a prickly bramble native to eastern and central North America from Newfoundland south to Georgia, west as far as Ontario, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas. The species is also established as a naturalized plant in California.

<i>Rubus ursinus</i> Berry and plant

Rubus ursinus is a North American species of blackberry or dewberry, known by the common names California blackberry, California dewberry, Douglas berry, Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry and trailing blackberry.

<i>Rubus parvifolius</i> Species of flowering plant

Rubus parvifolius, called Japanese bramble, or Australian raspberry in the United States or native raspberry in Australia is a species of plant in the rose family. It is a scrambling shrub native to eastern Asia and Australia. It has also become naturalized in a few scattered locations in the United States.

<i>Rubus pubescens</i> Berry and plant

Rubus pubescens is a herbaceous perennial widespread across much of Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska to Newfoundland, south as far as Oregon, Colorado, and West Virginia.

<i>Coptotriche marginea</i> Species of moth

Coptotriche marginea is a moth of the family Tischeriidae, found in most of Europe. It was named by the English botanist, carcinologist and entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1828, from a specimen found in England. The larvae mine the leaves of brambles (Rubus) species.

<i>Diastrophus rubi</i> Species of wasp

Diastrophus rubi is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae that live on the stems of bramble. The insect was first described by the German entomologist Peter Friedrich Bouché in 1834 and is found in Europe.

<i>Lasioptera rubi</i> Species of fly

Lasioptera rubi is a species of gall midge in the family Cecidomyiidae and is found in Europe. It was first described in 1803 by the German priest, botanist and entomologist, Franz von Paula Schrank. The larvae feed within the tissue of brambles, creating abnormal plant growths known as galls.

Dasineura plicatrix is a species of gall midge, an insect in the family Cecidomyiidae, found in Europe. It was described by the German entomologist Friedrich Hermann Loew in 1850. The larvae feed within the tissue of bramble leaves, creating an abnormal growth known as a plant gall.

References

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  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rubus caesius". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Rubus caesius (Dewberry)". Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora. Biological Records Centre. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  4. "PLANTS profile for Rubus caesius (European dewberry)". USDA. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  5. Flora of China, Rubus caesius Linnaeus, 1753. 欧洲木莓 ou zhou mu mei
  6. 1 2 Flora of North America, Rubus caesius Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 493. 1753. European dewberry
  7. Altervista Flora Italiana, Rubus caesius L. includes photos and European distribution map
  8. "Dewberry: Rubus caesius". NatureGate. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  9. "Occurrence of European Dewberry, Rubus caesius (Rosaceae), Naturalized in Iowa and Michigan". Michigan Botanist. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  10. 1 2 3 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 (2023). "Phylogeny of Rubus (Rosaceae): Integrating molecular and morphological evidence into an infrageneric revision". 72 (2): 278–306. doi: 10.1002/tax.12885 .{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany