Unidentified white flower

bertietheblue · #1 (**permalink**) 19-05-2011, 09:04 PM

From a walk in the park with my daughter: is this a bramble flower? Thanks

IanS · #2 (**permalink**) 19-05-2011, 09:54 PM

Yes, this looks like one of the many brambles to me.

leifus · #3 (**permalink**) 20-05-2011, 06:34 AM

yep!

hard to tell from the photo but it could be dewberry, Rubus caesius

Dorts · #4 (**permalink**) 20-05-2011, 04:54 PM

Bramble - Rubus sp. Impossible to say which as there are over 400 kinds recorded in Britain.
Don't think it's Dewberry - Rubus caesius as that has sepals longer than, or as long as the petals.
Dorts.

bertietheblue · #5 (**permalink**) 20-05-2011, 07:48 PM

Thanks all - sorry about the mobile phone quality. Must make an effort to take the camera next time.

bertietheblue · #6 (**permalink**) 21-05-2011, 09:13 PM

I've gone back with my camera and taken a better photo. Isn't it Dewberry? It certainly looks like a twin of the dewberry photo in the 'Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe' (Bob Press/Bob Gibbons) field guide.

Dorts · #7 (**permalink**) 21-05-2011, 09:37 PM

Thanks for the clearer photo.
Now than the sepals are showing I have to apologise to leifus, as it now looks like Dewberry - Rubus caesius, sepals as long as petals and not overlapping.
Dorts.