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  • From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Are brambles or ribes good fruits for me to try growing?
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:46:33 -0400

Thank you. An important point. I never understood the way to
differentiate blackberries and black raspberies before this thread
started. I believe that we have wild blackberries here (solid core that
remains with ripe fruit when it is harvested). They are
terrible-tasting- seedy and bitter, unlike other wild brambles I have
eaten farther north on teh east and west coasts. They are an incredible
invasive nuisance here. Mechanical removal does little, because they
resprout from bits of root left behind. The birds spread the seeds
apparently, they act as very efficient 'first colonizers' of distiurbed
sites.

I am very pleased to learn that black raspberries are better behaved.

Betsy
7a NC



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Did this string clearly mention that red raspberries and blackberries
spread via
rhizomes and can be difficult to get rid of? Black raspberries spread
via the canes
reaching and the tips rooting down-- still a mind of their own, but
easier to
control/ transplant/ eradicate.









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