Elm-Leaf Blackberry is a scrambling shrub. Stems are low-arching and
interlacing, distinctly whitish becoming reddish, sharply angled. Stems
have few to many stout, erect to slightly hooked prickles on angles. Young
stems are velvety. Leaves are compound with 5 leaflets, which are almost
smooth on the upper surface, dense whitish on the underside, with toothed
margins. Central leaflet is oblong to narrow-obovate, long-pointed, 3-8 x
2-5 cm, with stalk 1/3-2/5 length of the blade. Stipules are linear.
Inflorescence is densely hairy with glands. Sepals are long-pointed,
velvety and with very few, longer, simple hairs, usually without but
sometimes with prickles. Petals rounded, strongly crinkled, bright pink.
The fruit is a blackberry. Elm-Leaf Blackberry is native to Europe and
Africa, naturalized in Kashmir.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed on Shankeracharya hill, Kashmir.
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