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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Native form of raspberry (Rubus spp. strigosus)
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:06:28 -0500

Steven Covacci asked, "Does anyone have any good-fruited, not so disease-susceptible 100% native populations of raspberry (sometimes gray-leaf raspberry), Rubus spp. strigosus?"


It grows profusely here is zone 3 where agriculture hasn't taken a foothold. Where agriculture thrives, farmers have killed it off because it is invasive. While it is relatively disease resistant, it is a stronghold of cane borers, a bane of those of us who attempt to grow more productive varieties of Rubus.

P.S. Though very flavorful, the fruit tends to be small to tiny.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)





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