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5th Aug 2008, in the woods on Ainsdale Sand Dunes, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
Low and sprawling. On sand at the edge of woodland. |
5th Aug 2008, in the woods on Ainsdale Sand Dunes, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
An isolated plant, quite rare! |
25th Sept 2008, Trowbridge Quarry, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
5th Aug 2008, in the woods on Ainsdale Sand Dunes, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
5th Aug 2008, in the woods on Ainsdale Sand Dunes, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
25th Sept 2008, Trowbridge Quarry, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The berries have a matt-blue-black bloom on them. |
25th Sept 2008, Trowbridge Quarry, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The stems have weaker stems and thorns than Blackberries. |
25th Sept 2008, Trowbridge Quarry, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
the berries are quite distinct from Blackberries. |
Hybridizes with : Lookee-Likees : Brambles.
Uniquely identifiable characteristics : The bluish-black multiple fruits have distinctly larger fruitlets than do the berries of Dewberry is a low, sprawling prostate undershrub closely related to the Brambles with which it readily hybridizes. It inhabits sandy places, like sand dunes, especially at woodland edges. It also grows in grassy places, fens and scrubland. The berries are about as large as a blackberry, but the fruitlets are notably larger than those in blackberries and fewer in number. They also usually have a matt-bluish bloom on them, which readily thumbs off with fingering. Although the dark-bluish black fruits are edible, they are rather insipid. The stems have smaller briars on than do brambles, and they are also thinner and less robust. The leaves are trefoil, as in most brambles. The flowers are white with five petals.
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Rubus (Brambles) |
Rose Family [Rosaceae] |