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BRAMBLE
Rubus fruticosus
Family ROSACEAE
In hedges, thickets and waste places, the Bramble abounds everywhere.
It has a perennial rootstock from which spring the thick stems. They are provided with hooks, prickles and gland-tipped hairs, all variously intermingled. Growing half-erect to a great length. the stem then arches over until the tip touches the earth, when roots are formed and a new plant arises.
The leaves are compound, usually with three or five ovalleaflets, arranged, pinnately, and more or less downy. The midribs and stalks are usually armed with hooked prickles.
The white or pink flowers are in panicles at the end of the branches. The calyx forms a broad tube with five lobes; petals five and stamens maony. The numerous carpels are grouped upon a conical receptacle, each containing two ovules, of which only one develops into a seed.
The fruit is a black or purple drupe, but very minute and stalkless, a large number being clustered together on the receptacle to form the so-called Blackberry.
Flowering from June to September.
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It flowers in May and June. An Bramble annual plant common in dry fields and waste places throughout Great Britain. It is a plant that has folIowed close in the wake of cultivation. Its grace and lightness suggest Bramble to the mind some kind of
relationship with the Maidenhair - fern, more especially in the lower portion of the plant. The leaves are thin and much divided.
The calyx is two-lipped and there are five petals, a large up per petal, two lateral ones, and a Bramble lower pair which are united, forming a boat-shaped body. Within this body lie the stamens and pistil, and the former have the filaments united in to a tube within Bramble which lies the ovary. Flowering from April to June. Though this handsome plant will be found growing apparently wild in the hedgerow and on the borders of fields, it must Bramble be not be hastily concluded to be a native. The species is largely grown in this country as a green fodder plant, for which it is highly esteemed, and it Bramble has escaped from the fields and reproduced itself without man's aid.
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