True Blackberries
Rubus fruticosus L.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Rosaceae
Also called Blackberry, bramble, Shrubby blackberry
Formerly Rubus aestivus, Rubus avellanifolius, Rubus consimilis, Rubus ernesti-bollii, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N., C. & E. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Braam, Gewone braam, gewone braam
- German
- Brombeere
- French
- Ronces buissonnantes, Ronces communes, Ronce commune
- Croatian
- Kupina, Crna kupina, Kupinjača
- Swedish
- Björnbär artkomplex
- Estonian
- põõsasmurakas
- Spanish
- Zarzamora
- Polish
- Jeżyna krzewiasta
- Danish
- Brombær
- Greek
- Βάτος η θαμνώδης
- Czech
- okruh ostružiníku křovitého
- Slovak
- sekcia ostružiny krovitej
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Rubus fruticosus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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