Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Succeeds in deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Rubus calcynoides is a fast and low growing wide spreading attractive groundcover that suppresses weeds produces edible berries and provides year round visual interest with its leaves that change colors with the season. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.

Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. The greenhouse nursery 81 s.

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology.

The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Also it s hardy.

Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.