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Rubus Ulmifolius is a typical Mediterranean plant that is also found in North Africa, Asia Minor and the African islands of the Atlantic
It has also been introduced to other areas like South America.
It forms brambles on roadsides, around walls and inside forests where there is wet ground.
This is a very invasive plant.
It is a brambly shrub with thorns on the stems, petioles, and even leaf nerves.
It has adventitious roots and can measure from 2-3 m tall.
The leaves are alternately arranged.
It has compound leaves of 3-5 imparipinnate leaflets.
The leaves have petioles, elliptical, ovate or obovate shaped with toothed margin.
They are dark green, slightly leathery and pubescent on the obverse. The obverse is white-storm color.
Sometimes the leaves have small red spots.
The flower is hermaphrodite, with differentiated calyx and corolla.
The flower is pentameric, it has 5 sepals below 5 oval petals and infinite stamens.
The ovary is super.
The color of the flower can vary from pink or white, but the pink color is the most common.
The inflorescence is composed in the form of panicle.
This plant is popularly known for its fruit which is the blackberry.
The blackberry is a polidrupa.
First, the blackberry is red and it turns to black when it matures.
Les blackberries are edible forest fruits, sweet used in pastry to prepare desserts and jams.
You can also prepare wines and spirits with them.
The dried leaves, used as infusions, have astringent, antiseptic urinary and buccal properties, they also have diuretic properties.
Blackberry contains many minerals and vitamins A, B and C. It also has high iron content and therefore is used to prevent and control anemia.
Recently it was discovered that the blackberries prevent cancer development and help to reduce cholesterol because they have flavonoids.