Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Rubus moluccanus var. trilobus

Common name

Molucca Bramble, Queensland Raspberry, Lobed Molucca Bramble

Family

Rosaceae

Where found

Forest and moist gullies. Coast and ranges. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Tall scrambling shrub or climber, stems to 6 m long. Prickles to about 3 mm long scattered on the stems, leaf stalks, lower surface of the leaves, and flower stalks. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–15 cm long, 30–125 mm wide, prominently 3–lobed, rarely 5-lobed, margins toothed, sometimes shallowly lobed, bases often cordate, upper surface green, sparsely appressed-hairy, lower surface often brown tomentose. Flowers usually pink, rarely red or white, with 5 petals each 6-8 mm long. Flowers in clusters of up to 12 flowers. Fruit red, more or less round, 11-13 mm long.

Was Rubus hillii.

A naturally occurring hybrid between Rubus moluccanus var. trilobus and Rubus parvifolius, known as Rubus x novus, has characters intermediate between these two species.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rubus~moluccanus (accessed 5 February, 2021)