Botanical name: Rubus moluccanus
Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Rubus hillii
Common name: Wild Raspberry, Black berry, Black cherry, Broad-leaved
bramble, Ceylon blackberry, Molucca bramble, Molucca raspberry
Flowering: April-May
Wild Raspberry is a tall scrambling shrub or climber. The stems are covered
with short rusty or white woolly hairs, and armed with numerous recurved
prickles. Alternately arranged leaves are broadly ovate- heart shaped, usually
3- or 5-lobed, 3-20 cm long, 2.5-18 cm wide. They are hairless or sparsely
hairy above, with a crinkled surface. They are densely white or rusty hairy
below. Flowers are white, borne in clusters in in upper leaf axils. Sepals are
large, velvety, and persist till fruiting. Petals are 5. Fruit is a red berry,
about 1.2 cm across.
pic:Vagamon,Kerala,IND
Alcesefoliside is a compound of the flavonoid class found in the herbs of Rubus alceaefolius Poir with cytoprotective activity. Alcesefoliside
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