Rubus caesius

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Species of flowering plant

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  • Rubus caeruleus Gilib.
  • Rubus coeruleus Gilib.
  • Rubus humilis Bubani
  • Rubus ligerinus Genev.
  • Rubus mitissimus Ripart ex Genev.
  • Rubus rivalis Genev.
  • Rubus sabulosus Sudre
  • Selnorition cesius (L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Selnorition caesius (L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.

Rubus caesius is a Eurasian species of dewberry, known as the European dewberry. Like other dewberries, it is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, related to the blackberry and raspberry. It is widely distributed across much of Eurasia.

Description

Rubus caesius is similar to and often confused with forms of Rubus fruticosus.

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Distribution and habitat

Rubus caesius is widely distributed across much of Europe and Asia from Ireland and Portugal as far east as Xinjiang Province in western China. It has also become sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in Argentina, Canada, and the United States.

It most often inhabits areas with rocky, basic soil and light shade.

Ecology

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The dewberry can hybridise with the raspberry (R. idaeus) and the stone bramble (R. saxatilis).

Genome

Alice et al., 2001 find R. caesius is a tetraploid blackberry which hybridises especially with R. idaeus and others of the genus. Sochor et al., 2015 finds this species has produced many new European blackberry species by speciation by hybridisation with R. idaeus. Carter et al., 2019 find maternal descent is probably from Rubus subg. Rubus.

References

References

  1. [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/rjp-8 The Plant List, ''Rubus caesius'' L. ]
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  3. "Dewberry: ''Rubus caesius''". NatureGate.
  4. "''Rubus caesius'' (Dewberry)". Biological Records Centre.
  5. "PLANTS profile for ''Rubus caesius'' (European dewberry)". USDA.
  6. [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200011369 Flora of China, ''Rubus caesius'' Linnaeus, 1753. 欧洲木莓 ou zhou mu mei ]
  7. [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200011369 Flora of North America, ''Rubus caesius'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 493. 1753. European dewberry ]
  8. [http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=rubus+caesius Altervista Flora Italiana, ''Rubus caesius'' L.] includes photos and European distribution map
  9. (2023). "Phylogeny of ''Rubus'' (Rosaceae): Integrating molecular and morphological evidence into an infrageneric revision". Taxon.

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