The raspberry is a woody plant of the genus Hangerberries in the Rosaceae family, a fruit with a sweet and sour flavor and barbed thorns on the branches of the plant. Raspberries are known by many aliases, such as: hoverberry, raspberry, raspberry berry, treeberry, raspberry, wild berry, raspberry, and cassis.

In Europe and the United States as a fruit, in China a large number of distribution but less known, only in the northeast of a small number of cultivation, the market is relatively rare. Raspberry plant can be used as medicine, there are a variety of medicinal value, and its fruit has the role of tonic kidney and aphrodisiac. Raspberry oil is an unsaturated fatty acid that promotes the secretion of hormones by the prostate.

Morphological features:

Raspberry is a shrub, 1-2 meters high; branches brown or reddish brown, tomentose pubescent when young, sparsely prickly. Leaflets 3-7, sometimes 3-foliolate on flowering branches, often 5-7-foliolate on infertile branches, long ovate or elliptic, terminal leaflet often ovate, sometimes lobed.

3-8 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apically shortly acuminate, base rounded, terminal leaflet base subcordate, glabrous or sparsely pilose above, densely grayish-white tomentose below, margins irregularly coarsely serrate or biserrate.