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Black Raspberry
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Black Raspberry
P Native Photo: Kiranraj R
Common name: Black Raspberry, Nilgiri Raspberry, Red-haired raspberry
Botanical name: Rubus racemosus    Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)

Black Raspberry is a subshrub, tender parts glandular, prickles recurved. Leaves are odd-pinnate, up to 12-16 x 8-10 cm, papery; margin sawtoothed; leaf-stalk up to 5-7 cm; stipules adnate to leaf-stalk, up to 6 mm, persistent. End leaflet i ovate, pointed, up to 8 x 6 cm, often somewhat lobulate; laterals ovate-lanceshaped, 7 x 3.5 cm. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in few-flowered clusters, carried on flower-cluster-stalk 2 cm long. Flowers are 1 cm wide, petals 5, red, longer than sepals. Stamens numerous. Ovary hairless; ovule 1. flower-stalk up to1 cm; bracts subulate, 6 mm. Sepal-tube is shallowly cup-shaped, with glandular hairs; sepals 5, ovate-tapering. Fruits are spherical, 1 cm wide, purple. Black Raspberry is found in West Himalaya and South India.

Identification credit: Kiranraj R Photographed in Doddabetta, Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu.

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