Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Also it s hardy.

Succeeds in deep shade. The greenhouse nursery 81 s. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out.

Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Alternate flowers and fruit. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together.

In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. 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. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges.

There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover.