A plant spotted at Anglesey Abbey which struck me as some kind of mutant blackberry.
This afternoon I zoomed in a bit to help things along and Google Images made a clear ruling in favour of the wineberry or Rubus phoenicolasius - a species in the Rubus (blackberry) genus in the Rosaceae (rose) family. An originally east Asian form of raspberry which has done well in parts of north America and Europe.
About as far as zoom can usefully go. With fruits which are edible and can be used to make tarts and pastries. Good for hedgerow harvesters in that there are no toxic lookalikes.
PS: just a short entry for rebus in Bentham & Hooker. Just over 2 pages listing just 5 of the many species identified by Wikipedia. Not including this one.
References
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus. Blackberries (some of which are also known as brambles), raspberries, dewberries, cloudberries and wineberries - amongst others of roughly the same sort. Apparently a challenge for systematic botanists.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_phoenicolasius. Wineberries.
Group search key: cmb.
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