Ripe fruit is a decent orange-red raspberry — sweet-tart, small, pleasant fresh. The dried unripe fruit (fù pén zǐ) is a traditional Chinese materia medica item, not an eating fruit — sour and astringent.
Hardiness
Zone 6 to 9
Habit
Shrub
Edible part
Fruit
Ripens
Ripe fruit early summer; ⚠ the medicinal article is picked unripe (green-yellow), May–June