Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Rubus parvifolius
Common name
Native raspberry, Small-leaf bramble
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassy areas, rocky areas, stream banks, and gullies. Widespread. Occasional on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Scrambling shrub to about 1 m high, sometimes prostrate. Prickles on stems, leaf stalks, lower surfaces of the leaflets, and flower stalks. Leaf margins sharply and sometimes deeply toothed. Fruit fleshy. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3-5 leaflets, occasionally leaves below the flower clusters with only one leaflet. Leaflets 1–5.5 cm long, 7–40 mm wide, upper surface wrinkled and more or less hairless, lower surface white- or grey-tomentose;, margins toothed. Flowers red or pink to purplish, with 5 petals with frilly margins each 4-6.5 mm long. Flowers never open fully. Flowers single or in clusters of up to 7 flowers. Flowers spring-summer. Fruit fleshy, red, approximately round, 10-15 mm long.
A naturally occurring hybrid between Rubus moluccanus var. trilobus and Rubus parvifolius, known as Rubus x novus, has characters intermediate between these two species.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rubus~parvifolius (accessed 5 February, 2021)
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