Rubus pacificus Hance

Shrubs 40–100 cm tall, evergreen. Branchlets brown or reddish brown, terete, slender, slightly arching, soft hairy, glabrate in age, with sparse, minute prickles. Leaves simple; petiole 4–8 cm, villous when young, glabrescent, with sparse, minute prickles; stipules brownish, oblong, to 2.5 cm, villous, broader and incised-laciniate near apex, lobes lanceolate; blade broadly ovate to narrowly ovate, 8–16 × 5–13 cm, palmately 5-veined, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, brownish, distinctly raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, leathery, abaxially densely gray tomentose, adaxially glabrous, base cordate, margin inconspicuously lobed, irregularly abruptly pointed sharply serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, short racemes or corymbose, 3–6-flowered, or flowers solitary in leaf axils; rachis and pedicels densely soft hairy; bracts oblong, to 1.8 cm, villous, apex lobed; lobes lanceolate. Pedicel 1–3 cm. Flowers 1.5–2 cm in diam. Calyx abaxially soft hairy; sepals reflexed in fruit, rarely erect, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.9–1.4 cm × 5–8 mm, apex acuminate; outer sepals apically laciniate, inner sepals entire. Petals white, suborbicular, slightly longer than or nearly as long as sepals, base shortly clawed, apex slightly incised. Stamens shorter than petals; filaments broad, flat; anthers villous. Pistils numerous, somewhat longer than stamens. Aggregate fruit red, globose, 1.2–1.6 cm in diam., glabrous; pyrenes rugose. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.

Anhui, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

Roadsides, mixed forests, mountainous areas; 300--1000 m.

Rubus pacificus là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa hồng. Loài này được Hance miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1874.

太平莓（学名：Rubus pacificus）为蔷薇科悬钩子属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的江苏、江西、湖南、福建、安徽、浙江等地，生长于海拔300米至1,000米的地区，一般生于杂木林、山地路旁及内，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。