Rubus odoratus L. - Rosaceae - flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, thimbleberry, **Zimt-Himbeere**

Deciduous shrub, up to 2m tall, native of Eastern North America; cultivated as ornamental.

"One of the best of the ornamental raspberries because of its rose-like, fragrant, <nowiki>2" wide, rose-purple flowers which appear over a long summer bloom period and its palmate, 5-lobed, maple-like, medium green leaves (4-10" wide). This shrub has hairy stems but virtually no prickles. Flowers give way to 3/4" diameter</nowiki>, cup-shaped red fruits (raspberries) which are edible but somewhat dry, crumbly and unappetizing. Sometimes commonly called thimbleberry (though this common name is usually more appropriate for the similar but white-flowered Rubus parviflorus of the West)." [[http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=m190|missouribotanicalgarden.org]]

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Rubus odoratus, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, USA (2010) © Werner Tueckmantel [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/|CC BY-SA 4.0]] [[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/319963818|inaturalist.org]]

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Audubon,J.J., Birds of America [double elephant folio edition], t.123 (1826-1838) 
[[http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=1103291|plantgenera.org]]