Photo: Ivar Leidus — CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
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Survives zone 5 through 8
Few large drupelets under a waxy blue bloom; sharper and more acidic than blackberry — better cooked than fresh.
- Hardiness
- Zone 5 to 8
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Aug–Sept
- Mature size
- Low trailing bramble; tip-roots — needs containment
- Light
- Full sun to partial
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (lime-tolerant — unusual in the genus)
- Environment
- Temperate; calcareous and coastal ground
- Status
- Wild
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile