Raspberry-like berry

Raspberries have long been considered a very valuable berry. Thanks to the presence of a huge amount of vitamins, it saves from many ailments.

Content:

• Blackberry
• Strawberry (stubble) raspberry
• Cloudberry
• Prince
• Mulberry
• Mora
• Strawberry spinach-raspberry
• Loganberry

There are many different types of raspberries, differing not only in size and taste, but also in color. In nature you can find red, black, yellow and even white raspberries. Because of this, many cannot distinguish raspberries from other berries.

Blackberry

Blackberries are berries similar to raspberries. Inexperienced gardeners can sometimes confuse them, mistaking black raspberries for blackberries and vice versa.

Blackberry similar to raspberries in the appearance of the bush and the structure of the berries. However, its fruits are larger and much darker in color. Blackberries may appear black, but in living plant life there is no distinct black color. The berries of this plant are rich purple in color, which is why they appear black.

Sometimes the yield of blackberries is amazing; there are much more fruits on the branches than green leaves. The berry, similar to raspberries, has a very pleasant fragrant aroma and sweet and sour taste. Blackberries are usually picked in the early hours of sunrise. Immediately after picking, blackberries must be eaten or processed, since their fruits cannot be stored for a long time. In just a few hours, the berries become limp and are no longer suitable for consumption.

If blackberries are immediately placed in the refrigerator, the freshness of the berries can be preserved for up to 5 days.

Strawberry (stubble) raspberry

For our latitudes strawberry raspberry still rare. It is a woody subshrub that bears fine-grained, conical red berries on its fruiting branches, which appear in September. The berries are very shiny, one might say glossy. Therefore, they are very popular among confectioners. They are good for decorating sweet pies, pastries and cakes. The height of the bush is 0.5 m. It reproduces by layering and is very aggressive in the garden.

Well suited for hedges as the branches are very thorny.

Cloudberry

The second name is swamp guard or royal berry. Found in swampy areas and moss tundras. The bushes are subshrubs of small height - about 30cm. Berries with a diameter of 1.5 cm, clustered drupes, amber color.

Used in compotes, jams, liqueurs and soaked. Both fruits and leaves are widely used in folk medicine. Pushkin's favorite berry.

Prince

It is also called northern raspberry. The fruits are similar to raspberries and drupes. A relict biennial plant from the Ice Age that loves marshy places. This is an Arctic plant, rarely found in the middle zone.

The berries are very aromatic, the smell of which is comparable to the world's best vintage wines. Hybrids obtained by Finnish breeders from common raspberries and princely raspberries are called “nectar raspberries”.

Mulberry

Other name - mulberry. The plant is a deciduous tree with a height of more than 10 m. The berries are also clustered drupes of a whitish (alba) or dark purple, almost black (nigra) color. The fruits are used for filling pies, wines, and tinctures. Mulberry wood is highly valued; it is very durable and very popular among coopers and musical instrument makers.

Mora

Mora is a sour purple or raspberry berry, very similar to raspberries. Large fruit shrub of the Andean foothills. This exotic fruit has a very pleasant smell and wonderful taste. The fruits come in various shapes – large and small, round and oval.

Strawberry spinach-raspberry

A very unusual annual plant with large aromatic berries. Spinach raspberries have another popular name - Marya many-faced. The correct name is multileaf spinach.

Spinach height is 0.5 m. Spinach multileaf branches from the very bottom of the plant, has a spreading shape. A very beautiful plant. And since the berries do not fall off and have a very long shelf life, such exquisite decorativeness is very pleasing to many gardeners.

The fruits are juicy, sweet, large, elongated. The fruits, similar to raspberries, are attached at the base of the petioles. The productivity is very high. Not only the fruits of the plant are edible, but also the leaves. They have medicinal properties. Multileaf spinach is a cold-resistant plant that tolerates the aggression of spring frosts well, so the seeds can be safely sown directly into the ground.

Loganberry

Another name is Logan berry. A hybrid of blackberries and raspberries, accidentally obtained through cross-pollination. The berries are elongated, of an unclean reddish and black color. Although the hybrid has a high yield, the logan berry has not found any use in fresh form. Good for jam and fruit wines.

There are several other types of berry bushes that resemble raspberries in appearance. But they grow in a different climate on the territory of other states.