Japanese name: モミジイチゴ（紅葉苺） Scientific name:Rubus palmatus
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub about 2 m tall, found in bright woods and at forest edges.
The stems branch and bear many hooked thorns.
Branches in their first and second years are green.
The leaves are alternate, broadly ovate, and medium- to deeply divided into 3–5 lobes.
There are hairs on the veins of the undersides of the leaves, and the margins have notches and serrations.
The leaf stalks have hooked thorns.
On flowering branches bearing a few leaves, 1–3 flowers hang down.
The small flower stalks are hairy.
The flowers are white and 5-petaled, about 3 cm across.
The calyx is hairy.
The fruit is a spherical aggregate fruit that ripens orange-yellow and is edible.
