Re: Wild Rose? Berries?? = Flowering Raspberry

Aug 09, 2003 1 Replies

Thank you!!



Can the berries be eaten?


Roses produce pomes like apples but smaller not berries.
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> Your plant has aggregate drupelets, a cluster of many one seeded berries
> like a Raspberry.
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> In fact, your plant is the "Flowering Raspberry", Rubus odoratus. It is
> unusual in the genus not only by having large showy pink flowers and palmate
> leaves that are not divided into leaflets but it also lacks any of the
> thorns that are typical for most raspberries!!! It is a very good ornamental > shrub.
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> > I have no clue what this plant is, here is a pic of the flower, a berry it
> > produces once the flower dies, and a leaf. Ideas?
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> > > Thanks! > >
> > PS: It's in my backyard, in Montreal, Canada
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Rubus odoratus--Flowering Raspberry

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