Rubus imperialisCham. & Schltdl.

WFO wfo-0001001515 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rubus imperialis, photographed by Gonzalo Martinez
fig. a Gonzalo Martinez, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-24 / obs. 166040638
Rubus imperialis, photographed by Gonzalo Martinez
fig. b Gonzalo Martinez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166041237
Rubus imperialis, photographed by Gonzalo Martinez
fig. c Gonzalo Martinez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166041239
Rubus imperialis, photographed by Gonzalo Martinez
fig. d Gonzalo Martinez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170212707

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Rubus imperialis is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil Southeast
Native distribution of Rubus imperialis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.