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ClassificationRosaceae: Rubus
Barcode(s)00872491
CollectorH. D. Thoreau
CountryUnited States of America
StateMassachusetts
GeographyNorth America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Concord
LocalityConantum
Date Collected1857-08-25
Remarks[“Aug. 27. Thursday. P.M. – To Conantum, high-blackberrying. Detected a, to me, new kind of high blackberry on the edge of the cliff beyond Conant’s wall on Lee’s ground, - a long-peduncled (or pedicelled), leafy-racemed (somewhat panicled), erect blackberry. It has the aspect of R. Canadensis become erect, three or four feet high. The racemes (or panicles?) leafy, with simple ovate and broad-lanceolate leaves; loose, few flowered (ten or twelve); peduncles (or pedicels) one to two or more inches long, often branched, with bracts midway, in fruit, at least, drooping. Perhaps the terminal flowers open first. Stem angular and furrowed much like that of R. villosus, leaf-stalks more prickly; leaves broader, thinner, and less pointed, smooth above; beneath, as well as young branches, much smoother than R. villosus; lower leaves ternate and, if I remember, sometimes quinate. Berries of good size, globular, of very few, large grains, very glossy, of a lively flavor, when young of a peculiar light pink; sepals less recurved when ripe than those of villosus. It is apparently Bigelow”s R. frondosus made a variety by Gray; but see flowers.” Journal 10: 14-15. 1857]
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Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00872491
HerbariumGH
FamilyRosaceae
Determination Rubus pensilvanicus Poiret
Determined byKittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined2017
Determination Remarks [current name]
FamilyRosaceae
DeterminationInQuestion Rubus villosus var. frondosus (Bigelow) Torrey
Determination Remarks [label name]
SubcollectionThoreau Herbarium
PhenologyFruit
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed