Rubus fruticosus L.

• upright, arching or scrambling shrubby plants usually forming dense thickets.
• their stems are almost always armed with prickles and become woody with age.
• their compound leaves have three or five spreading leaflets and are usually borne on prickly stalks.
• these leaflets are usually egg-shaped in outline or oval in shape with variously toothed margins.
• its white or pale pink flowers have five petals, five sepals, and numerous stamens.
• its fleshy fruit (10-30 mm across) turn from green to red as they begin to mature and then glossy black when fully ripe.
• these berry-like fruit are actually made up of many smaller fruit, each containing a single small seed.

[From: Environmental Weeds of Australia]