Scientific name: Rubus idaeus L.
Common name: Wild Raspberry
Description
Habit: A spiny perennial, to 1.5 m high.
Stems: Erect, woody, spines weak.
Leaves: Alternate, lowerside covered with white hairs, with small and narrow stipules fused with the leaf stalk, compound with 3-7 oval leaflets.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 8-10 mm across, drooping, in small racemes, flowering in the second year; calyx 5-toothed, calyx tube very shallow; petals 5, free, small, erect; stamens numerous; carpels numerous, on a conical receptacle; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A head of many 1-seeded drupes, red, rarely yellow or white, hairy.
Habitat: Hedges, scrub, wood-margins.Distribution: Frequent to occasional.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No