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Survives zone 5 through 9
The familiar blackberry — sweet-tart, excellent fresh and cooked; quality varies enormously between microspecies. An aggregate of hundreds of apomictic microspecies, not a single species.
- Hardiness
- Zone 5 to 9
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Aug–Sept
- Mature size
- Vigorous arching cane 2–4 m; tip-roots — needs containment
- Light
- Full sun to partial — best fruit in sun
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.0 (near-neutral)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- SELF-FERTILE (largely apomictic)