Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

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. Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan.

Alternate flowers and fruit. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious.

The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. Also it s hardy.

Succeeds in deep shade. The greenhouse nursery 81 s. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out.

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.