Rubus parvifolius
| Rubus parvifolius | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Rubus |
| Species: | R. parvifolius |
| Binomial name | |
| Rubus parvifolius L. 1753 not Moon 1824 nor Sm. 1815 nor Raf. 1833 nor Walter 1788 | |
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Rubus parvifolius, called Japanese bramble, or Australian raspberry in the United States[2] or native raspberry in Australia[3] is a species of plants in the rose family. It is a scrambling shrub native to eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) and Australia.[4][5][3] It has also become naturalized in a few scattered locations in the United States.[6]
Rubus parvifolius is a shrub up to 2 meters tall with arching branches armed with curved prickles. Young stems are finely pubescent, becoming hairless with age. The leaves are pinnate with 3 to 5 toothed leaflets. Flowers are numerous, in clumps at the end of stems, and have red or pink petals. The red fruit is 1 cm wide.[5][7]
Uses
The red fruit is pleasantly flavored and can be eaten raw or used in sauces and jams. The dried fruit are used in traditional Chinese medicine.[8] It has shown hepatoprotective and antioxidant activities in studies on mice.[9]
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- ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ Flora of North America, Rubus parvifolius Linnaeus, 1753. Japanese bramble, Australian raspberry or bramble
- 1 2 Atlas of Living Australia
- ↑ USDA GRIN Taxonomy, retrieved 16 May 2015
- 1 2 Flora of China, Rubus parvifolius Linnaeus, 1753. 茅莓 mao mei
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ PlantNET, Rubus parvifolius plant profile
- ↑ Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson, and Steven A. Spongberg (2003), "Rubus parvifolius", Flora of China online 9, retrieved 16 May 2015
- ↑ Gao J, Sun CR, Yang JH, Shi JM, Du YG, Zhang YY, Li JH, Wan HT.,"Evaluation of the hepatoprotective and antioxidant activities of Rubus parvifolius L." J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2011 Feb;12(2):135-42
