Black Raspberry, Wild Black Raspberry, Black-Cap, Thimbleberry

This is not the Thimbleberry we are familiar with, which is Rubus parviflorus, which grows in wooded roadsides in northern Michigan and C...Read Morealifornia, and has only delicious red berries and no thorns. Wish you could only call these Wild Black Raspberry or Black-Cap and not Thimbleberry. I would hate to order a Thimbleberry plant and end up with one of these.

A plant with good food attached to it. Has some thorns that arent too bad. It can compete fairly decently, and berried nicely in a woods ...Read Morenext to my house until garlic mustard annihilated it.

Zone 4 hardy for sure - they are very common in Anoka Country Minnesota in sandy soil - their fruits change from red to almost black, giv...Read Moreing them the look of blackberries, giving them that name. They will grow in shade or sun, rooting themselves by having their top fall over and touch the ground. They fruits much better in more sun but they seem to resent being in too open an environment in the wild, prefering woodland edge and opening. Maybe they root poorly in thick grasses? Hard to tell about zone 3a - maybe they thrive in areas with more neutral or basic soil, with 3b a maybe - other raspberries species and allies like thimbleberry seem to replace them further north at least in Minnesota.

these plants grow very well in the wild, i have picked large berries from these plants. i love the unique flavor of the berries, very swe...Read Moreet and refreshing. i think that this plant is a wonder and i have never seen the berries sold in a grocery store here.