genus Rubus


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Noun1.genus Rubus - large genus of brambles bearing berriesgenus Rubus - large genus of brambles bearing berries
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, rose family - a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens
bramble bush - any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits
dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry - any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
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Asexual propagation of species in the genus Rubus is virtually performed via tissue culture (VILLA et al., 2008) and stem (VILLA et al., 2003) and root cuttings due to the simplicity of processing and handling cuttings and the presence of large quantities of thorns on stems (DIAS et al., 2011).
All cane fruit belongs to the genus Rubus, a group of between 300 and 750 species and hybrids.
in folk medicine, the leaves and fruits of plants of the genus Rubus are used in various treatments.