Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

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.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Also it s hardy. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. The greenhouse nursery 81 s. Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges.

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Succeeds in deep shade. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together.

The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Alternate flowers and fruit.

The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring.