Formosa Carpet Ground Cover Raspberry

Rubus calycinoides creeping raspberry is an evergreen groundcover forming a dense carpet adorned with long spreading branches clothed in lustrous emerald green thickly textured leaves.

Formosa carpet ground cover raspberry.

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Succeeds in deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. I contacted hirt s and requested to have the original order filled or if the plant was unavailable to receive a full refund. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. These rubus species are evergreen and ground covering spreading and making an excellent cover in sun partial or deep shade. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.

Low maintenance and a great addition to our gardens. Spring 2005 planted rubus emerald carpet in just one year this ground cover is rapidly filling areas that were targeted. Creeping raspberry produces white flowers in summer but these flowers can often get lost amidst the dense and rich foliage. Therefore it s not very well suited to being a ground cover.

In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. In the meantime i did some research and discovered. The creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus isn t a prostrate version of the common raspberry plant but is a low growing ground cover with deep green semi evergreen leaves and bright white flowers. We get quite alot of snow this winter was down to 15 below zero.

Not many ground covers are this willing to adjust. They all flower in summer and bear nice raspberry like fruits. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus.

I live in zone 5. It spreads 12 24 outward per year on each cane like stem. On apr 19 2006 rachele from revelstoke canada wrote. At maximum height it can reach a foot tall but it often stays in a thick 6 mat along the ground.

Groundcover raspberry rubus pentalobus emerald carpet. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters.