Raspberries have vertical upright canes around 1-2m long, and their suckering shoots tend to run and pop up quite a distance away from the original plant, whereas other cane berries stay in a clump where they’re planted, and have much longer trailing canes that tend to grow more horizontally and root into the ground where they make contact with the soil.Įven though raspberries are perennial plants, only their underground root stems and crowns are perennial. The growth habit of raspberries differs from the other cane berries too. Raspberries differ from other brambleberries when picked, they have a hole at the top and leave a white plug (pictured above) called a receptacle behind on the plant Other cane berries such as blackberries and their hybrids don’t have a long receptacle and detach cleanly at the top leaving only a small indentation where they were attached. One identifying characteristic of raspberries is that when they’re picked, the receptacle, which looks like a small long white plug, remains on plant, leaving a deep hole at the top of the berry. What’s quite interesting is that the whole Rubus genus is part of the Rosaceae (Rose) family, to which almonds, apples, apricots, cherries, hawthorns, loquats, peaches, pears, plums, quinces, raspberries and strawberries also belong! Raspberries ( Rubus idaeus) belong to the genus Rubus, along with other cane berries such as blackberries, boysenberries, lawtonberries, loganberries, marionberries, silvanberries and tayberries.
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