Użytkownik "Mike Lyle" napisał w wiadomości
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| "Basia Kulesz" wrote in message
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| Look up this site for information on "true" black rspberries:
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http://doityourself.com/fruits/blackcapbrambles.htm I had grown
'Bristol'
| myself once.
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| This was interesting, so I did a short prowl on the net. What struck
| me, apart from its apparent proneness to disease, was that although
| everybody including a dictionary was calling _Rubus occidentalis_ a
| 'raspberry' it seemed in nearly all respects to be more a blackberry
| than a raspberry, even down to a tip-rooting habit.
|
| Could you who know the plant -- I don't think I'd ever heard of it
| before -- explain, please?
In fact I had got rid of the plant rather quickly. The stems were weedy and
untidy (OK, I can live with this, but the amount of stalking needed was much
greater than in case of "standard" raspberries or blackberries), arching,
awfully long - four meters easily, not the plant for my small garden.
However, what turned the scales was the plant's unhealthiness - the mildew
seemed to be ever-present no matter what I did and how much I sprayed. And
since I had at that time experimented with thornless blackberries, purple
raspberries, yellow-fruited raspberries and tayberries I simply threw the
unlucky plant away. The fruit was not worth the trouble. No regrets:-)
If I remember rightly, the name of "raspberry" is given to those Rubus
plants, where the fruit can be pulled off the plant without the "bottom",
while blackberries are gathered with the fruit well filled in.
Regards, B.