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Moquin mentions a variety of _Rubus fruticosus_ in which nearly 900 petaloid organs existed in the place of the twenty-five or thirty stamens natural to the plant, the other organs of the flower being in their ordinary condition, with the exception of the pistil, which did not attain its full size.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Anagallis phoenicea_, _Honckenya peploides_, _Arabis alpina_, _Ranunculus auricomus_, _Rubus fruticosus_, and _Geranium columbinum_, also frequently afford illustrations of this circumstance.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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But some crosses between the blackberry and the raspberry (_R. fruticosus_ and _R. idaeus_) which bear good fruit and have become quite popular, are so fixed in their type as to reproduce their composite characters from seed with as much regularity as the species of _Rubus_ found in nature.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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I here join together the tree and the fruit, the Bramble (_Rubus fruticosus_) and the Blackberry.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Very luxuriant alders (_Alnaster fruticosus_, LEDEB.) occur already at
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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_R, fruticosus_ is the best-known European species, but neither has it, as far as I can discover, been the source of any varieties worthy of favor.
Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863
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There are now as many as 2,000 varieties of Rubus fruticosus worldwide, if you count the naturally occurring hybrids and commercial cultivars, and none of them produce true berries.
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