Rubus Odoratus Flowering Raspberry. Rubus odoratus flowering raspberry is a strong growing deciduous shrub forming a thicket of erect stems clothed with palmate 5 lobed maple like dark green leaves 4 10 in. Fruits ripens in mid to late summer.
Purple flowering raspberry rubus odoratus is an ornamental native shrub prized for the purple flowers that bloom profusely in early summer and continue throughout the season. Fruit is a dry aggregate purplish red drupe that resembles a fuzzy flat raspberry. Rubus odoratus flowering raspberry is a strong growing deciduous shrub forming a thicket of erect stems clothed with palmate 5 lobed maple like dark green leaves 4 10 in.
It is native to du page county but rare in surrounding counties and introduced in some counties according to swink and wilhelm.
Flowering raspberry sometimes also known as thimbleberry is a highly distinctive species with large up to 10 inch or 0 2m wide five lobed leaves and large pink fragrant flowers. Rubus odoratus flowering raspberry is a strong growing deciduous shrub forming a thicket of erect stems clothed with palmate 5 lobed maple like dark green leaves 4 10 in. Purple flowering raspberry rubus odoratus is one of my favorite summer flowering shrubs click photo below for an enlargement. The stems are thornless unlike many other rubus species.
