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Rubus tricolor; photograph (c) Jose Gutierrez Higa, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Jose Gutierrez Higa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-09-24

Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain

Chinese bramble

Rosaceae · China South-Central

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Focke.

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Summary

Rubus tricolor is a species of prostrate shrub. Its common names include Chinese bramble, groundcover bramble, creeping bramble, Korean raspberry, Himalayan bramble, and groundcover raspberry. In Chinese, it is called 三色莓 ('sān sè méi ').

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rubus tricolor", 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.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 25 of the 26 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland · 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).
Map marker29.65, 102.93 · in the densest population, 16 records (62% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 26 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 19 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 21 km away. 1362 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 25 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7873774 (Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain): Kew's file holds it as Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain (accepted); 549 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 26 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Sabarni Sarker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Jose Gutierrez Higa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Alex Press, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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 armeniacus Rubus armeniacus Himalayan blackberry Photo: CC0, author not statedRubus australis Rubus australis Rosaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Rubus bambusarum Rosaceae Rubus × barkeri Rosaceae Rubus biflorus Rubus biflorus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado all 104 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Focke ex Prain
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
26 in range · 19 open

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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 2989222 is Rubus tricolor Focke; the page links Kew's Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 549 records of GBIF's key 7873774, Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain (Kew's file holds it as Rubus tricolor Focke ex Prain (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 153 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (90 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium, 60 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 2026-10-22read from the page's key and its other keys: 89 from GBIF's key 7873774
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 43 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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