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Rubus armeniacus; photograph (c) Zachary M.C., some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Zachary M.C., some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-09-14

Rubus armeniacus Focke

Himalayan blackberry; Giant blackberry; Himalaya blackberry; Himalaya giant blackberry

Rosaceae · Transcaucasus, Iran

No habitat climate
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Summary

Rubus armeniacus, the giant blackberry, Armenian blackberry, or sometimes, misleadingly, "Himalayan blackberry", is a species of Rubus in the blackberry group Rubus subgenus Rubus series Discolores (P.J. Müll.) Focke. It is native to Armenia and northwestern Iran, and widely invasive elsewhere. Both its scientific name and origin have been the subject of much confusion.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rubus armeniacus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Rubus

Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, most commonly known as brambles. Fruits of various species are known as raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, cloudberries, and bristleberries. It is a diverse genus, and estimates of the number of Rubus species vary from 250 to over 1,000, found across all continents except Antarctica.

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeTranscaucasus, Iran · introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Baltic States, Central European Russia, Cape Provinces, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, Japan, Colorado, Illinois, California, Alabama, Mexico Northwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“scrambling shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 849 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (4); (c) Zachary M.C., some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Other Rubus 103 in the reference

Rubus acuminatus Rubus acuminatus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Anastasia TitovetsRubus adenotrichos Rubus adenotrichos Tropical Highland Blackberry Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialRubus affinis Rubus affinis Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Dave RichardsonRubus alceifolius Rubus alceifolius Giant bramble Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿Rubus allegheniensis Rubus allegheniensis Allegheny blackberry Photo: CC BY, The Wrong IndustryRubus arcticus Rubus arcticus Arctic bramble Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerRubus argutus Rubus argutus Sawtooth blackberry Photo: CC BY, cello caruso-turielloRubus australis Rubus australis Rosaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Rubus bambusarum Rosaceae Rubus × barkeri Rosaceae Rubus biflorus Rubus biflorus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoRubus bifrons Rubus bifrons Himalayan Berry Photo: CC0, author not stated all 104 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Rubus hedycarpus subsp. armeniacus; Rubus hedycarpus var. armeniacus; Rubus macrostemon f. armeniacus; Rubus procerus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Focke
Native to
Transcaucasus, Iran
Wild records
none in range · 849 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 36 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (17 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 at a herbarium, 15 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 61 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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