American Red Raspberry, Rubus idaeus

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Rubus idaeus (Raspberry; occasionally as European Raspberry, Framboise, or Red Raspberry to distinguish it from related species) is a species of Rubus, native to Europe and northern Asia. A closely related plant in North America, formerly often regarded as a variety Rubus idaeus var. strigosus, is now usually treated as a distinct species Rubus strigosus (American Raspberry). It is a perennial plant which bears biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem grows vigorously to its full height of 1.5-2.5 meter, unbranched, and bearing large pinnate leaves with five or seven leaflets; normally it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the stem does not grow taller, but produces several side shoots, which bear smaller leaves with three or five leaflets. The flowers are produced in late spring on short racemes on the tips of these side shoots, each flower about 1 centimeter diameter with five white petals. The fruit is red, edible, sweet but tart-flavoured, produced in summer or early autumn; in botanical terminology, it is not a berry at all, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. In raspberry, as in other species of the subgenus Idaeobatus, the drupelets separate from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit, whereas in blackberry the drupelets stay attached to the core.

Plant Description

Plant Type

Shrub, Vine

Size

4.9 - 9 ft tall

Form

Upright

Growth Rate

Moderate

Flower Color

White

Flowering Season

Spring

Wildlife Supported

Butterflies & moths hosted ( 8 confirmed

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Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinusStrymon melinus

Raspberry Crown Borer Moth Pennisetia marginataPennisetia marginata

Filament Bearer Nematocampa resistariaNematocampa resistaria

Variable Carpet Anticlea vasiliataAnticlea vasiliata

Blinded Sphinx Paonias excaecataPaonias excaecata

Lettered Habrosyne Habrosyne scriptaHabrosyne scripta

Tacoma Cutworm Trichordestra tacomaTrichordestra tacoma

Landscaping Information

Nurseries

Carried by 1

Common uses

Bird Gardens

Natural Setting

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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links: Jepson eFlora Taxon Page CalPhotos Wikipedia Calflora

American Red Raspberry

Rubus idaeus

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American Red Raspberry

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