Rubus lucens - Shining Raspberry

Shining Raspberry is an evergreen climbing shrub, about 4 m tall. Flowers are borne at branch-ends or in leaf-axils, in cymose panicles, branch-end ones 15-30 cm, lateral ones shorter. Petals are white or pink, obovate, nearly as long as sepals. Stamens are usually 20-40, sometimes up to more than 70, shorter than petals; filaments linear. Pistils 10 to more than 20, shorter than stamens; ovary soft hairy. Sepal-cup below thinly soft hairy; tube pelviform; sepals erect in fruit, oblong, 4-6 x 2-3 mm, abruptly pointed. Bracts are linear or lanceshaped, 4-6 mm. Flower-stalks are about 1 cm. Branchlets are thinly velvet-hairy or nearly hairless, becoming becoming hairless, with minute prickles. Leaves are 3-foliolate; leaf-stalk 4-10 cm, leaflet-stalk of at branch-ends leaflet 1.5-3 cm, lateral leaflets shortly stalked, thinly velvet-hairy or almost becoming hairless, with sparse prickles. Leaflets are ovate, broadly elliptic, or ovate-lanceshaped, 8-13 x 4-7 cm, leathery, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, above shiny, both surfaces hairles, base rounded or broadly wedge-shaped, margin sparsely shallowly sharply sawtoothed, tip with a tail. Aggregate fruit is nearly spherical, less than 1 cm in diam., hairless or slightly soft hairy, enclosed in sepal-cup; pyrenes coarsely wrinkled. Shining Raspberry is found in montain valleys, ravines, forests, thickets, at altitudes of 600-3000 m, in NE India, S Yunnan, Indonesia, Philippines. Flowering: June-August.