Japanese name: ビロードイチゴ Scientific name:Rubus corchorifolius
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub covered overall with abundant velvety hairs.
The stems are densely hairy, with sparse hooked thorns.
The leaves are alternate, long-ovate, 3–10 cm long, unlobed or slightly 3-lobed, with a shallowly heart-shaped base.
The veins on the underside of the leaf are densely hairy, and the margin has blunt serrations.
The petiole is 1–1.5 cm long.
On flowering branches 1–4 cm long bearing a few leaves, 1–2 flowers hang downward.
The flowering branches and small flower stalks are densely hairy.
The flowers are white and five-petaled, about 2 cm across.
The calyx is densely hairy.
The fruit is a spherical aggregate fruit 1 cm across and ripens yellowish red.
