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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]



Alan,  If your blackberry plants get the distortions only on certain sprouts on a whole branch, it's rosette, a fungus and yes, removing them helps a lot.  The rosetted flowers are larger, pinker, and often earlier, and don't make fruit.  The disease is spread by the infected flowers.  Donna