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I was clearing the corner of a friend's garden in Cornwall, and
the blackberry puzzled me, because it had perennial stems like
a rose. It wasn't any of the foreign blackberries that I recognise,
nor like most of the UK ones. Other than that, it was a very
ordinary blackberry, just like most of the other UK ones.

Does anyone recognise such a thing? My guess is that it could be
an extreme Rubus fruticosus (perhaps in section glandulosi), or a
hybrid with a foreign species.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

I have always assumed that they just behaved liked that down here so I will
be interested in any informed responses, several of the ones in my hedgerow
send up very tall woody stems that last for 5 years or so and behave like a
rambling rose, but I do grow one of the American thorn less varieties in the
fruit cage so a hybrid is more than possible. just wish they had inherited
the thorn less habit as well!


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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk