Rubus caesius
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Growing form
Shrub that produces root sprouts.
Size
50–200 cm high.
Stem
The stems are biennial, procumbent – arcuate, terete, unarmed or sparsely covered with delicate barbs, glabrous, glaucous, and blue-gray.
Leaf
The lamina is typically trifoliate and typically green beneath.
Flower
The panicle typically consists of ten flowers. The sepals are densely short-pubescent, acuminate and cuspidate. The petals are longer than the sepals, patent, toothed at the apex and white.
Fruit and seed
The fruit is a blackish blue, glaucous compound drupe.
Observations in Finland
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
A total of observations in Finland ?
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Observations
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Species card
Checklist
MR.1
Scientific name
Rubus caesius
Author
L.
Vernacular names
- sinivatukka (Finnish)
- blåhallon (Swedish)
Identifier
http://tun.fi/MX.38806
Taxon rank
species
Occurrence in Finland
Collected from Finland
Status in Finland
- 1 - spreading in the wild; to a small degree of cultivated origin
- AOV - spontaneous, old, resident
Regulatory Status
Crop wild relative (CWR Priority species) ?
Finnish Regional Red List Category
- 2019 NE – Not Evaluated
- 2010 LC – Least Concern
Expert
- Arto Kurtto
DNA barcode sequences
Informal groups
- Vascular plants
- Berry plants
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