Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Rubus anglocandicans
Common name
Blackberry
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grasslands, pastures, disturbed sites, roadsides, gardens, orchards, plantations, along streams, and near swamps. Widespread. Rare on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced high arching semi-deciduous shrub to 4 m high forming dense thickets. Produces roots at the stem tips and suckers from the base. Prickles to 7 mm long on stems (mainly on the angles), leaf stalks, and sometimes on the lower surfaces of the leaves. Leaf margins sharply toothed. Fruit fleshy. Stems strongly angled, hairy when young, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually compound, with 3 or 5 leaflets, sometimes some leaflets joined, leaves on the stems that produce flowers often with only 1 or 2 leaflets. Leaflets mostly 3–11 cm long, 10–75 mm wide, upper surface green, becoming hairless, lower surface usually felted with sparse to moderately dense longer hairs. Flowers pale pink, fading white, with 5 petals each 6–19 mm long, elliptic, not crumpled. Sepals without prickles. Flowers in large clusters. Flowering: Mainly late spring and summer. Fruit more or less round, initially green, ripening red, maturing black, about 15 mm in diameter.
One of the species in the Rubus fruticosus species aggregate.
A Weed of National Significance. General Biosecurity Duty with additional restrictions all NSW. Pest plant ACT. Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rubus~anglocandicans (accessed 5 February, 2021)
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