Rubus thibetanus Franch.

Shrubs 2–3 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown, cylindric, initially densely soft hairy, glabrescent, with sparse prickles, with white bloom. Leaves imparipinnate, (5–)7–11(–13)-foliolate; petiole 1–2 cm, petiolule of terminal leaflet 0.7–1.5 cm, lateral leaflets sessile, petiolule and rachis with dense soft hairs and sparse, slender prickles; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–8 mm, pubescent; blade of leaflets variable, terminal leaflet ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–6.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, more than 2 × as long as lateral leaflets, margin often pinnately lobed, deeply incised or coarsely sharply serrate, apex long acuminate, lateral leaflets obliquely ovate or ovate-orbicular, 1–3 × 0.6–1.5 cm, margin with several large sharp teeth above middle, abaxially densely gray tomentose, adaxially pubescent. Inflorescences terminal, corymbose, 2–4 cm, 3–8-flowered, rarely flowers solitary in leaf axils; rachis and pedicels densely pubescent; bracts linear, 4–6 mm, pubescent. Pedicel 1–1.5 cm. Flowers 1–1.2 cm in diam. Calyx abaxially densely pubescent; sepals spreading at anthesis, reflexed in fruit, triangular-lanceolate, 5–7 × 2–4 mm, apex acuminate. Petals pink or purplish red, orbicular-ovate, 3–4.5 × 3–4 mm. Stamens numerous, purplish red; filaments linear. Pistils nearly as long as stamens; ovary densely pubescent; styles ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Aggregate fruit purplish black or dark red, subglobose, 8–10 mm in diam., densely gray pubescent; pyrenes densely rugulose. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug.

Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang.

Thickets, forest margins, roadsides, slopes, ravines, dry places; 900--2100 m.

Rubus veitchii Rolfe.

Rubus thibetanus, sometimes known as ghost bramble, is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Rubus, native to western China, where the local Chinese name may be translated into English as Tibetan dewberry. It is xu zang xuan gou zi in transcribed Chinese

Rubus thibetanus is found in Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Xizang (Tibet) provinces, to an altitude of 900–2100 meters, usually in dry areas in ravines, thickets, ditches, and on the edges of forests.

Rubus thibetanus grows 2–3 m tall, with reddish-brown, cylindric branchlets, and sparse prickles. Leaves are pinnately compound, triangular over all, appearing rather fern-like. Flowers are white, emerging in June. In August it bears its fruit, which are globular, purplish-black or dark red inedible aggregate fruits ("berries"), 8–10 mm in diameter.

In cultivation in he UK Rubus thibetanus has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.