I have a mystery cane fruit on my allotment which came with the plot, and which I recently transplanted, but I have no idea what it is. I would post a picture, but this time of year they are basically just bare stems.
-They grow like raspberries (spreading underground and sending up individual upright canes).
-Are thornless.
-Have slightly red-tinged green stems and leaf stems (even on second year canes).
-The canes are fairly thick for their length and have an angular (I want to say pentagonal) cross-section, rather like wild bramble stems.
-The leaflets are usually in fives, and are arranged palmate like a blackberry leaf, rather than pinnate like a raspberry leaf.
-Have smallish round black fruit rather like small blackberries, and are possibly the most delicious cane fruit I have ever tasted, incredibly sweet and fruity (at least when fully ripe; they're kind of bitter when under ripe).
Anyone recognise it?
-They grow like raspberries (spreading underground and sending up individual upright canes).
-Are thornless.
-Have slightly red-tinged green stems and leaf stems (even on second year canes).
-The canes are fairly thick for their length and have an angular (I want to say pentagonal) cross-section, rather like wild bramble stems.
-The leaflets are usually in fives, and are arranged palmate like a blackberry leaf, rather than pinnate like a raspberry leaf.
-Have smallish round black fruit rather like small blackberries, and are possibly the most delicious cane fruit I have ever tasted, incredibly sweet and fruity (at least when fully ripe; they're kind of bitter when under ripe).
Anyone recognise it?
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