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Rubus ursinus is a wide, mounding shrub or vine, growing to 0.61–1.52 metres (2–5 feet) high, and more than 1.8 m (6 ft) wide. [3] The prickly branches can take root if they touch soil, thus enabling the plant to spread vegetatively and form larger clonal colonies. The leaves usually have 3 leaflets but sometimes 5 or only 1, and are deciduous.
Black nightshade is a common herb or short-lived perennial shrub, found in many wooded areas, as well as disturbed habitats. It reaches a height of 30 to 120 cm (12 to 47 in), leaves 4.0 to 7.5 cm (1.6 to 3.0 in) long and 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2 in) wide; ovate to heart-shaped, with wavy or large-toothed edges; both surfaces hairy or hairless ...
The round-shaped fruit is a 12-to-15-millimetre (0.47 to 0.59 in) diameter aggregation of drupelets; it is edible, and has a high content of anthocyanins and ellagic acid. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Long stems also called canes grow up to 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in length, usually forming an arch shape, but sometimes upright.
The blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), also known as black currant or cassis, [a] is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its edible berries. It is native to temperate parts of central and northern Europe and northern Asia, where it prefers damp fertile soils. It is widely cultivated both commercially and domestically.
It is a large shrub that can grow 0.5–5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) high, with shoots with a quadrangular cross-section.. The leaves are elliptic to oval-shaped, 3–16 centimetres (1– 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long and 2–8 cm (1–3 in) broad; they are hairy along the margins and on the underside, and have a distinctive abruptly acuminate tip.
Empetrum nigrum is a low growing, evergreen shrub with a creeping habit. [8] The leaves are 3–6 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 4 inch) long, arranged alternately along the stem. The stems are red when young and then fade to brown.
The Latin specific epithet nigra means "black", and refers to the deeply dark colour of the berries. [11] The English term for the tree is not believed to come from the word "old", but from the Anglo Saxon æld, meaning fire, because the hollow stems of the branches were used as bellows to blow air into a fire. [12]
The fruit in botanical terminology is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets, 1.2–2 cm diameter, ripening black or dark purple. Both first- and second-year shoots are spiny, with short, stout, curved, sharp spines. Mature plants form a tangle of dense arching stems, the branches rooting from the node tip when they reach the ...