Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 18 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China North-Central | CHN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| China Southeast | CHS | |
| Hainan | CHH | |
| Japan | JAP | |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Kuril Is. | KUR | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Nansei-shoto | NNS | |
| Qinghai | CHQ | |
| Sakhalin | SAK | |
| Taiwan | TAI | |
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| Queensland | QLD | |
| South Australia | SOA | |
| Tasmania | TAS | |
| Victoria | VIC | |
| Vietnam | VIE | ASIA-TROPICAL |
Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.
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.
Flowering 206 in flower of 482 examined
Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Rubus parvifolius observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 206 of 482 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 51 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Ampomele triphylla (Thunb.) Raf.
- Rubus adenochlamys (Focke) Focke
- Rubus adenochlamys var. orientalis F.P.Metcalf
- Rubus boormanii Gand.
- Rubus chinensis Thunb.
- Rubus chinensis var. concolor Cardot
- Rubus chinensis var. triphyllus (Thunb.) Nakai
- Rubus kinashii var. coreensis H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Rubus macropodus Ser.
- Rubus paniculatus Roxb.
- Rubus parciflorus Focke
- Rubus parviflorus Christm.
- Rubus parvifolius f. concolor (Koidz.) Sugim.
- Rubus parvifolius f. enomotoi Naruh.
- Rubus parvifolius f. flavus Akasawa
- Rubus parvifolius f. leucanthus Sugim.
- Rubus parvifolius f. subpinnatus (Nakai) Nakai
- Rubus parvifolius f. yoshinagae (Makino) Sugim. ex Naruh.
- Rubus parvifolius subvar. subconcolor (Cardot) Masam.
- Rubus parvifolius var. concolor (Koidz.) Makino & Nemoto
- Rubus parvifolius var. subconcolor (Cardot) Makino & Nemoto
- Rubus parvifolius var. subpinnatus Nakai
- Rubus parvifolius var. taquettii (H.Lév.) Nemoto
- Rubus parvifolius var. triphyllus (Thunb.) Nakai
and 27 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol RUPA2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.
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