Rubus palmatus,
a deciduous shrub inhabiting sunny forest edges, etc., grows
to approximately 2m in height, without hairs but
with straight prickles on stems and branches. Leaves are in
alternate arrangement, and blades are in the shape of a long ovate;
some are cleft in 3-5, some not, and the central leaflets are
significantly longer compared to the others and tips pointed, and
margins double serrated. Flowers bloom facing downward; petals, 5 in
number, are oblong or long oblong. Fruit, 1-1.5cm across, spherical,
ripen in orange-yellow
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