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Are these wild raspberries?
New Gardener5
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in Fruit & veg
As a newbie, I wasn't positive if these were raspberries. They look like they are but there are a bunch of them at a local park. Close up, they look a bit ugly (at least the branches do - they are kinda fuzzy and prickly). Having never eaten a single thing I've see in a park or outdoors (always believing something could be poisonous or toxic) I wanted to check. I took a branch home and put it in some water with rooting powder, but I haven't a clue if that will work.
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Looks like a raspberry. Wild raspberries are not likely to give a good crop. You would do better buying in some virus free raspberry canes.
They are propagated by dividing the roots and replanting.
Hello New Gardener5.
these are my early raspberries, they never get bigger, just darker as they ripen.
Have enlarged your photo and they look the same.
I'm sure someone who knows about wild raspberries will pick up your message.
They could be Japanese wineberries
In the sticks near Peterborough
Do you grow them nutcutlet?
Not but I killed one once
We saw a nice crop at East Ruston.
I'm not convinced, just thought it a possiblity. There are so many similar raspberry/brambly things
In the sticks near Peterborough
Could be unripe blackberries. Anyway, New Gardener5, try to propagate them and see. What you are attempting is a form of hydroponic propagation. What you need to do is add nutrients to the water eg a sachet of Dioralyte which contains all the ions required for humans and plants survival.Good luck.
It could be Rubus tricolor, an evergreen member of the raspberry family from east Asia. I remember it being planted as a ground cover plant in some parks and cemeteries where I used to work. The stems were red and hairy , very like Japanese Wineberry and the leave glossy. The fruit was like small raspberries, edible and quite sweet but lacking the Raspberry fragrance. Be warned, if it is this plant it is a rampant grower.