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Survives zone 6 through 9
A true blackberry — sweet-tart, good fresh and cooked. Better flavoured than most wild brambles.
- Hardiness
- Zone 6 to 9
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Aug–Sept
- Mature size
- Vigorous arching canes 2–3 m; ⚠ tip-roots where canes touch soil — needs containment
- Light
- Full sun to partial — best fruit in sun
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.0 (near-neutral)
- Environment
- Mediterranean and temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile (facultatively apomictic)