Rose-Leaf Bramble
About
This is a scrambling, soft-leaved prickly shrub with alternate, compound leaves. Each leaf is made up of 2-3 pairs of toothed leaflets and a longer, terminal leaflet. The leaflets are light-green, covered with fine hairs, and have very short stalks. There are prickles on the main leaf stalk and on the stems.The white flowers have 5 broad, spreading petals and are about 3 cm across. They may be seen at most times of the year. The fruit is an elongate raspberry, narrowing to a rounded tip. It is quite edible, without much flavour, but the native birds like it.The fruit is sweet and pleasant flavoured when grown with good soil moisture. The fruit is also sold at markets in the Himalayas.Leaf is used as a medicinal herb tea, for treating diarrhoea, menstrual pains, morning sickness and labour pains.[4] The leaf contains essential oils.Rose-leaf Bramble can be grown from cuttings, suckers or seeds, which germinate in 6-8 weeks. It often suckers but it doesn't climb.
