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Old 18-08-2009, 05:14 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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K wrote:

I don't have my books at work, but why are you certain that it isn't
cloudberry? What I can see of the leaves look wrong, but is there
more?


According to Fitter, cloudberry fruits are orange rather than red, and
the leaves are shallowly lobed rather than trefoil. But cloudberry
sprang into my mind when I saw the original pic, and I looked it up and
dismissed it on the basis of the leaves. Then looking again a few weeks
ago, I realised that what I actually had in mind was stone bramble, but
the petals of that are narrow.


They are, at least normally, and the leaves are definitely shallowly
lobed. But those pictures didn't include any of the leaves or
(equally important) the way it grows. However, rubi are notoriously
variable, and crosses are common.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.