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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Rosaceae
Rubus loganobaccus

Citation: L. Bailey, Gentes Herb. 1:155 (1923).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Loganberry.

Description:
Robust long arching stems; leaves large, pinnate, 3-5 leaflets, pilose below, glabrescent above.

Inflorescence of few-flowered leafy terminal and axillary racemes; flowers 2-3 cm diam.; sepals more or less erect; petals white.

Fruits large, purplish-red, adhering to the receptacle.

image of FSA1_Rubus_log.jpg Rubus loganobaccus
Image source: fig 244d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, SL, KI, SE.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: in early summer, Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: R. idaeus L., Sp. Pl. 492 (1753). Raspberry. Cultivated in cooler, moister parts of the State is not known to be naturalised.

Uses: The loganberry originated in 1881 in California as a cross between R. idaeus (raspberry) and R. ursinus and is now widely cultivated for its fruit.

Author: Not yet available


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