Tiny, fern-like foliage and a strawberry like flower, make this species look very un-rubus like. An indigenous taiwanese species that makes an attractive rockery plant.
treutleri( W )
Rare in cultivation is this Nepalese species. Palmate leaves and stems covered in fine hairy thorns. Pretty pink flowers in June and July, followed by orange fruits.
tricolor( W )
Popular ground cover species. This chinese species has been used in much breeding, mainly to utilize its prostrate, ground cover habit. Glossy, dark green, lobeless leaves and red hairy stems. Delicious red fruits.
trifidus
Rarely cultivated in this country. Japanese species with glossy, deeply lobed, palmate leaves and reasonably large flowers. orange fruits
trilobus
A medium sized upright to lax semi-evergreen shrub with reddish sparsely spiny stems, with palmate shallowly three-lobed rugouse leaves. Bearing relatively large white flowers singly or in pairs in the leaf axils, soon followed by extraordinary large shining black fruit.Guatemala.
ursinus( W )
A North American species which has been a parent plant used in many significant hybrid crosses. The Loganberry, Youngberry and the Boysenberry , were all breed from R. ursinus.
xanthocarpus
Very short growing species from China. "xantho" means yellow and "carpus" means fruit, so its no surprise that one of this plants most interesting features is the large yellow fruits that follow the small white flowers. Spreads fast, so makes for a good ground cover, however it is herbaceous and dies back to the ground in winter.