Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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