Rubus biflorus
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Rubus biflorus, Hamilt. Strong shrub prized in cult. for its glaucous-white canes: reaches 8-10 ft., with arching canes that bear stout, recurved prickles: lfts. 3-5, ovate or oval, incise-serrate, whitish beneath: fls. large and white, 1-3 on drooping pedicels: berry golden yellow or amber-colored, size of the common raspberry, the calyx at first erect, but finally spreading. Temp. Himalaya. B.M. 4678. R.H. 1855:5. Gn. 54, p. 456. Var. quinqueflorus, Focke. A striking plant with sts. reaching 12 ft. high and 4-5 in. circum. at base, covered with a waxy white bloom and therefore very showy, the spines stiff and 1/2in. long: pinnate lvs. about 1 ft. long, the lfts. about 5 and white beneath: panicles terminal and axillary and about 5-fld., the fls. white and 3/4in. across: fr. golden yellow, good. W. China. Gn. 76, p. 624.—A promising fr.-bearing as well as ornamental plant.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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