Rubus odoratus

Cinnamon Raspberry (Rubus odoratus )

The Cinnamon Raspberry (Rubus odoratus ) is a flowering plant native to North America of the genus Rubus.

Description

The Cinnamon Raspberry is an upright, spur - driving, deciduous shrub up to 2 meters long branches. The shoots have no sting and are densely covered with red stem glands. The Cinnamon Raspberry has large, 15-25 (-30 ) cm wide, 3 -5- lobed leaves with pointed, unequally serrate lobes and 4-5 centimeters wide purple-pink flowers that smell slightly. The sepals are densely covered with red glandular hairs. The flowering period extends from May to June (July). The orange hemispherical fruits are rarely developed in Europe.

The chromosome number is 2n = 14

Dissemination

The home of the cinnamon raspberry is the eastern North America, west of Nova Scotia to Ontario and south to Tennessee. In Europe it is cultivated as an ornamental shrub since the 17th century and here's wild places, particularly in South East England, scattered in Germany and Austria (Graz), in Finland they are found sporadically.

In their natural environment, the Cinnamon Raspberry grows in moist thickets and forest edges.

Use

The Cinnamon Raspberry is often planted as a ground cover because of its large leaves and flowers. The fruits can be ( purple to blue ) used for dyeing.

The edible fruit ( tasteless ) are out as a food among some tribes of North American indigenous people ( Cherokee, Iroquois ) as a remedy for coughs, diarrhea and pain of childbirth in use. An extract of the leaves of cinnamon raspberry is used among the Iroquois against kidney disease. The roots alleviate toothache.

Evidence

• Manfred A. Fischer, Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. 3rd revised edition. Province of Upper Austria, Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9.
• Gustav Hegi: Illustrated Flora of Central Europe, Volume IV, Part 2A, Second Edition, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1958.
• Henning Haeupler, Thomas Muer: Image Atlas of ferns and flowering plants in Germany. 2nd edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4990-2.
• Willibald Maurer: Fauna of Styria. Volume 1 IHW Verlag Eching, 1996, ISBN 3-930167-17-4.