Raspberry
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The
Raspberry (
Rubus idaeus) is a
plant that
produces a tart, sweet, red composite
fruit
(not a true
berry)
in late summer or early autumn. The fruit is similar to that
of the
blackberry,
but is smaller, softer, and of course a different colour. It
grows typically in forest clearings or fields, particularly
where fire or wood-cutting has produced open space for colonization
by this opportunistic colonizer of disturbed soil. As a domesticated
plant, it is easy to grow and has a tendancy to spread unless
cut back.
Two types are commercially available: the everbearing
plant, which bears fruit on first-year canes throughout most
of the summer and fall, and a Junebearing type that
produces an abundance of fruit within a relatively short period
in midsummer. Raspberries can be cultivated through USDA hardiness
zone 4.
A Golden Raspberry, which is pale yellow, has been selected
by horticulturalists.
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