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Stone bramble
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Taxonomic information
Common Name: Stone Bramble
Latin Name: Rubus saxatilis
Family: Rosaceae
Description
The stone bramble is closely related to the blackberry bramble, raspberries and the cloudberry which is also featured in these pages. It is a perennial herb with annual downy flowering stems and small flowers with narrow white petals which develop into scarlet fruits that have just a few large segments.
In the British Isles the stone bramble is an uncommon species with a scattered distribution in Scotland, Wales and central, northern and western England. In the Yorkshire Dales National Park this species is uncommon but may be seen flowering between June and August in rocky woodland and old, neglected hazel coppice on the Dales limestone, for example, in Bolton Abbey Woods (Wharfedale) and in Freeholders’ Wood Local Nature Reserve (Wensleydale).
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