Bramble-of-the-cape

Rubus rosifolius, commonly known as roseleaf bramble, Mauritius raspberry, or West Indian raspberry, is a perennial subshrub in the family Rosaceae of disputed origin (probably southern China and the Himalayan region) but now pantropically naturalised, including in tropical America, Africa, Australia, and many oceanic islands. The plant produces erect, biennial canes 1 to 2 metres tall arising from a perennial woody crown; canes are green to reddish, armed with scattered short straight prickles, and only weakly arching. Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound with five to seven (rarely nine) lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate leaflets 3 to 8 centimetres long, with sharply doubly serrate margins, sparsely hairy and dotted with sessile glands. Flowers are solitary or in small terminal cymes of two or three, large for the genus at 3 to 4 centimetres across, with five spreading white obovate petals and numerous yellow stamens, often described as rose-like. The fruit is an ellipsoid to oblong red aggregate of small drupelets 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres long, mildly sweet but rather insipid and somewhat hollow when ripe.