Rubus canescensDC. Çobankösteği (in Turkish)

Rubus canescensDC. - Çobankösteği (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Low, usually trailing shrub. Turions procumbent, often angled, not pruinose, pubescent or glabrescent, sparingly armed with slender, short, falcate prickles. Leaves ternate or sometimes pedate with 5 leaflets, discolorous; leaflets tomentellous or glabrous above, canescent-tomentose with stellate hairs below, bidentate, lateral ones subsessile, terminal one petiolulate, cuneate-obovate to rhombic; stipules linear. Flowering shoots erect, 15−40 cm, angled, pubescent to shortly tomentose, armed like the turions. Panicle terminal, many-flowered (the lower branches often subtended by the upper leaves), ovate-oblong to narrowly oblong, only 1.5−3(−5) cm wide, tomentose, bearing weak straight slender prickles, eglandular or rarely sparsely glandular. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, pubescent-tomentose, reflexed after flowering. Petals white (drying pale yellowish), obovate-oblong (rarely broader), 5−8(−10) mm. Drupelets black, small and numerous, glabrous.

 

Flowering time: May−August.

Habitat: Open forest, scrub, stony hillsides, banks, s.l.−2150 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH & Meikle RD (1972). Rubus canescens L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 35.

Public Description:

Rubus canescens, known as “çobankösteği” in Turkish, is native to Türkiye, Europe, Western Syria and the Caucasus. It is a low, usually trailing shrub with white flowers and black fruits. It blooms between May and August and is found in open forest, scrub, stony hillsides and banks. The fruit can be consumed as raw, and it is widely used in desserts, jams and jellies.

 

Anonymous (2018). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=3583/,Accessed date: 05.03.2018.

Aslan S (2012) Rubus L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 812–813.