Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. The greenhouse nursery 81 s. 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.

Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty.

Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration.

Alternate flowers and fruit. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. Succeeds in deep shade.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.