Rubus cissoidesA.Cunn.

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WFO wfo-0001018738 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rubus cissoides, photographed by Maureen Howard
fig. a Maureen Howard, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199553820
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. b Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188023856
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. c Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192766374
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Jaco Grundling
fig. d Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192777607
Rubus cissoides, photographed by John Barkla
fig. e John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184294762
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Claas Damken
fig. f Claas Damken, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 191446950
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. g Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199185420
Rubus cissoides, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. h Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195808989

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 253 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 253 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 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.

  • Rubus australis var. cissoides (A.Cunn.) Hook.f.
  • Rubus australis var. glaber Hook.f.
  • Rubus australis var. glaber Kirk
  • Rubus cissoides var. pauperatus Kirk

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.

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