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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

Full name "Himalayan Giant" also used in U.K. for many years.

As to "why": many nurserymen will use any name that sells sometimes 
regardless of what the plant is. There is and has long been a very wide 
range of ethical standards in the business. Maybe it was thought to have 
associations of bigness of fruit because of the size of the Himalayan 
mountains.

I think we might have to wait on some scholar who has access to old 
catalogues and horticultural literature to do literature research.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Dr. Chiranjit Parmar wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> I saw all my books/floras on Himalayan plants.  I did not find it listed 
> anywhere.  So I do not think that it is plant from Himalayan region, 
> even from India.
>  
> Why it has been named as Himalayan blackberry in USA.
>  
> Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
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