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is this the same as what we call Blackcaps in WI?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:
> 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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