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Posted by sala7 5 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 15, 05 at 10:39
We've just purchased a 6 acre building lot in subdivision and it is literally a carpet of wild blueberry (acid soil) and now that the blue berries are done for the season, we've noticed the below pictured vine (?) with ripe berries. We are big blackberry pickers and have never seen these. A very fine runner with rhubus like thorns, strawberry like leaves and a truncated blackberry type berry. Growing entwined with the blueberry and not one plant in 6 acres is over 4" high - but the runners are long. Any help in IDing this?
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RE: mystery berry
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| This is a creeping blackberry. I have looked in several books to try to determine the exact one. it might be pubescens or parvifloris, or perhaps hispida |
RE: mystery berry
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On another forum I posed this berry and the responce was "dewberry" (no latin). What do you think of that?
I appreciate you time on this. The past week has seen me stumped by three new plants! Two down and this ...maybe number three is in the bag! |
RE: mystery berry
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- Posted by dbarron Z6/7 (Oklahoma) (My Page) on
Tue, Aug 16, 05 at 7:48
| Dewberry is the common name of one of the Rubus spp that grows in Arkansas. It ripens two to three weeks before standing blackberries and in my opinion is somewhat sweeter. It bears with less frequency than the uprights though. |
RE: mystery berry
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| "Dewberry" is a general name for many species of Rubus, generally those with very few drupelets per fruit. The USDA PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov) lists "dewberry" as a common name for 91 (!) species. The genus as a whole contains 2 or 3 times that many species in the US. So "dewberry" isn't a particularly helpful name and I'm a bit skeptical of the odds of nailing this guy down to a given species from an image. Patrick Alexander |
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