Raspberry | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Damson, Dewberry, Dog Rose, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hairless Lady's-mantle, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Late Cotoneaster, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Midland Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Spring Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Waterer's Cotoneaster, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort, Wood Avens

Type:

Deciduous shrub

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

2 metres tall

Habitats:

Farmland, gardens, heathland, hedgerows, meadows, roadsides, scrub, waterside, woodland.

Flower:

White, 5 petals

Dull white to pink stalked flowers in clusters of 3 to 8, 5 petals.

Fruit:

Round, segmented berries. They start off green and become reddish-purple once mature. Maximum of 2cm in diameter.

Leaves:

A deciduous shrub with crinkly leaves. The leaves are 5 to 7 pinnate with serrated or doubly-serrated margins. The leaves alternate along the stems. The leaflets are egg-shaped and the end leaflets is stalked. The leaves are very hairy, especially on the undersides. The undersides are silvery in colour. The leaf stalks are covered in soft bristles which point downwards. Stipules are present at the bases of the leaf stalks where they meets the stem.

Aroma:

Fruits are very sweet-scented.

Other Names:

American Red Raspberry, European Raspberry, Grayleaf Red Raspberry, Red Raspberry, Wild Red Raspberry.

Frequency (UK):

Common