Formosa Carpet Ground Cover Raspberry

Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

Formosa carpet ground cover raspberry.

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. Succeeds in deep shade. In the meantime i did some research and discovered. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan.

It spreads 12 24 outward per year on each cane like stem. On apr 19 2006 rachele from revelstoke canada wrote. Groundcover raspberry rubus nepalensis 5 00. Creeping raspberry produces white flowers in summer but these flowers can often get lost amidst the dense and rich foliage.

We get quite alot of snow this winter was down to 15 below zero. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate.

Low maintenance and a great addition to our gardens. Not many ground covers are this willing to adjust. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.

In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. Groundcover raspberry rubus pentalobus emerald carpet. These rubus species are evergreen and ground covering spreading and making an excellent cover in sun partial or deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. They all flower in summer and bear nice raspberry like fruits. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus. I live in zone 5.

I contacted hirt s and requested to have the original order filled or if the plant was unavailable to receive a full refund. Spring 2005 planted rubus emerald carpet in just one year this ground cover is rapidly filling areas that were targeted. Therefore it s not very well suited to being a ground cover. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover.

Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade.