| Description | Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is an edible common, native Red Raspberry. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers, Edible Fruit |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full, some shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, dry to moist, woods, fields, roadsides |
| Flowers | white to greenish white, borne in cymes (umbel-like cluster) |
| Fruit | aggregate fruit, formed by fusion of several separate pistils of one flower, not a true berry |
| Leaves | green, whitish underneath, 3-5 parted |
| Stems | canes, last two years, fruit produced on second year, have spines or thorns |
| Dimensions | 5 feet or taller, arching, spreads by producing primocanes each year, will colonize an area spreading by uckers, stolons, rhizomes |
| Propagation | division, cuttings |
| Misc Facts | Genus name is the Latin name for brambles (blackberry and raspberry). Genus means of Mt. Ida in reference to the belief that raspberries were first discovered on Mt. Ida in Greece. AKA: American Red Raspberry, Red Raspberry, Wild Red Raspberry |
| Author's Notes | As a kid I grew up eating wild Raspberries each summer. We would pick them and eat raw, in cereal and ice cream. |
| Notes & Reference | #152-Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, U. of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (wisplants.uwsp.edu/VascularPlants.html), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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