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Rubus rosifolius, (syn. Rubus rosaefolius) also known as roseleaf bramble, West Indian raspberry, thimbleberry and ola'a is a prickly subshrub native to rainforest and tall open forest of the Himalayas, East Asia, and eastern Australia. It is also found abundantly in the Brazilian states Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and to the south until Rio Grande do Sul.

Rose-leaf bramble leaves are compound with toothed margins, with glandular-hairs on both sides of leaflets. Flowers are white in panicles or solitary. Edible fruit are 2 cm long.

Leaves stay green and fruits ripen in winter in Eastern Australia.

Uses

The fruit is sweet and pleasant flavoured when grown with good soil moisture. The fruit is also sold at markets in the Himalayas.

Leaf is used as a medicinal herb tea, for treating diarrhoea, menstrual pains, morning sickness and labour pains. The leaf contains essential oils.

Rubus rosifolius is rarely cultivated.

Weed Risk

R. rosifolius is an introduced environmental weed in the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico and French Polynesia, and extreme caution should be adopted when considering introducing this plant into regions where it is not already native.

Rubus rosifolius

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
(unranked): eudicot
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Rubus
Species: R. rosifolius

Binomial name
Rubus rosifolius

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