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The name "bearberry" for the plant derives in part from the edible fruit which is a food for bears. [2] The fruits are gathered as food for humans, and the leaves are used in indigenous herbal medicine. [1] The alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng (syn. Arctous alpinus (L.) Niedenzu) is a procumbent shrub 10–30 cm high (3.9–11 ...
The berry is glossy and, as with many blackberries, appears black on the plant, but turns a deep, dark purple when frozen and thawed. [2] It is medium in size and tends to be conical, longer than it is wide. [2] The berry has a somewhat tart, earthy and sweet flavor. [2]
carmogilev/Getty Images. Scientific name: Rubus ursinus x Rubus idaeus Taste: Sweet, tangy, floral Health benefits: Boysenberries—a cross between a raspberry, blackberry, dewberry and loganberry ...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the town of Cameron, North Carolina, was known as the "dewberry capital of the world" for large-scale cultivation of this berry, which was shipped out for widespread consumption. Local growers made extensive use of the railroads in the area to ship them nationally and internationally.
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The flower of this species is among the largest of any Rubus species. [7] [3] The plant produces edible composite fruit approximately 1 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, which ripen to a bright red in mid to late summer. Like raspberries, it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core.
Rubus spectabilis, the salmonberry, is a species of bramble in the rose family Rosaceae, native to the west coast of North America from west-central Alaska to California, inland as far as Idaho. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Like many other species in the genus Rubus , the salmonberry plant bears edible fruit, typically yellow-orange or red in color ...
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