Taxon: Rubus caesius L.

Common names:

• dewberry   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• European dewberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• ou zhou mu mei   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ronce bleuâtre   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• Acker-Brombeere   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• Kratzbeere   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• blåhallon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; Dict Econ Pl)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [c. & s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Edees, E. S. & A. Newton. 1988. Brambles of the British Isles.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Pedersen, A. 1980. Rosaceernes udbredelse i Danmark. II. Subgenus Rubus sect. Rubus, sect. Corylifolii og sect. Caesii. Bot. Tidsskr. 75:30.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, H. E. 1972. Die Gattung Rubus L. (Rosaceae) im nordwestlichen Europa. Phanerog. Monogr. 7:371.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rubus caesius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rubus caesius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rubus caesius.

Synonyms:

• (=) Rubus caesius var. turkestanicus Regel
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Rubus caesius L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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