These are wild raspberries that will start to ripe by the first of July. They will continue to ripen for the next month. If you’re going to eat them, though, you’re going to have to beat the birds first. They get up early in the morning!
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A daddy longlegs?
Dry some of the leaves, they make a good tea.
Make sure they’re thoroughly dry tho–wilted raspberry leaves are mildly toxic.
I’m always amazed at the number of bramble species we have here in the Mid-Atlantic. In addition to our tame red raspberries,m I’ve been watching the wild loganberries, boysenberries, blackberries, black raspberries, et al, gradually ripen. This is in addition to the blueberries, huckleberries, various types of mulberries, etc.
One bramble fruit I’m not particularly fond of tho is the Japanese raspberry (Rubus parvifolius L.), a recent introduction. You can recognize it by the hairy looking canes and the husk on the unripe berries. The ripe berries are rather insipid and sticky to the touch and the plant is very invasive.
This year, especially, our English wild raspberries are a bit late – still in blossom, actually. On the matter of “wild loganberries” massugu, are you sure about those as I understood that the loganberry was a cultivated hybrid between a blackberry and a raspberry raised by a certain Judge Logan (and now available in both thorned and thornless cultivars) many decades ago, unless I recall incorrectly? Several other equally delicious acidic tasting hybrids have been bred since then of course, but in Britain anyway none seem to have yet found their way onto supermarket shelves as far as I’m aware, so they tend to be grown exclusively by amateurs. And since they taste wonderful I can only assume they are not prolific enough for commerce, maybe.
Yes they are, as are boysenberries, but nobody around here actually grows them. They just grow wild in the hedgerows. I guess feral would be better term.
On second thoughts, are there ‘wild’ loganberries in America derived from garden escapees perhaps? The wild blackberry in Britain tends to be naturally quite variable and actually the first cultivated varieties were in fact selections of wild plants, albeit that quite a bit of deliberate blackberry breeding has taken place over time as well.
I have always gone out blackberry picking in the countryside ever since I was a small boy in the days when our island was being blockaded by German submarines in the second world war – and that’s when one learned to rush over to the best natural variants before one’s friends got there!
Dewberries are also ubiquitous here but harder to pick.