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)