Plant: woody shrub; to 3 m tall; canes strongly angled in cross-section, much-branched, erect, arching, sprawling, or creeping, rooting at the primocane tips, commonly living over 2 years; plants usually eglandular with stellate hairs; prickles sharp, stout, broad-based, laterally flattened, slightly to moderately recurved Leaves: more or less evergreen, green above, gray to white below; leaflets usually ovate to obovate; margins serrate to doubly serrate; primocane leaves 12-20 cm long, 9-14 cm wide, pinnately to pedately 3-foliolate or palmately 5-foliolate; floricane leaves 9-18 cm long, 8-18 cm wide, pinnately to pedately 3-foliolate INFLORESCENCE: conspicuously bracteate compound or simple terminal cymes with 11-numerous flowers surpassing the leaves Flowers: sepals reflexed, sometimes apiculate, 4-10 mm long, subtomentose, ovate to broadly lanceolate; petals white to pink, 9-16 mm long; ovaries slightly pubescent to glabrous; styles glabrous Fruit: very large, excellently flavored, spherical to hemispherical, coherent, fixed to the fleshy torus; drupelets black, glabrous to slightly pubescent, fleshy Misc: Cultivated, escaped, and naturalized in shady riparian areas; 900-2000 m (3000-6500 ft) Notes: Apr-Aug(-Oct) REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).