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.

Groundcover raspberry rubus nepalensis 5 00. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. Succeeds in deep 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.

The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Creeping raspberry produces white flowers in summer but these flowers can often get lost amidst the dense and rich foliage.

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Low maintenance and a great addition to our gardens. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. In the meantime i did some research and discovered.

We get quite alot of snow this winter was down to 15 below zero. These rubus species are evergreen and ground covering spreading and making an excellent cover in sun partial or deep shade. 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.

Spring 2005 planted rubus emerald carpet in just one year this ground cover is rapidly filling areas that were targeted. 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. I live in zone 5. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range.

Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus. Not many ground covers are this willing to adjust. They all flower in summer and bear nice raspberry like fruits. Therefore it s not very well suited to being a ground cover.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. It spreads 12 24 outward per year on each cane like stem. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious.