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Food- Fruit consumed raw or cooked in pies, preserves. It is juicy with a sweet rich black-raspberry flavour. Medicine- The leaves are used as a tonic for older people. The fruits and the roots are used in the treatment of dysentery. Dye- A purple to dull blue dye is obtained from the fruit
Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
Temperate biome, alttitude 500-2800m.
Perennial shrub 1-1.2m tall.
The stems are whitish velvety at first, becoming smooth green to purple later.
Lleaves are compound with 5-11 leaflets (mostly 7 or 9). The leaflets are 2.5-8 cm long and 1-4 cm broad, dark green above, densely pale grey to white velvety beneath.
Fowers are about 1 cm across, with five dark pink to red petals.
The fruit is 8-12 mm in diameter, densely grey velvety, dark red at first, ripening to black.