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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Wish you were here - summer beauty in the Helderbergs
Even though the fall is my favorite season, the summer in the Helderbergs can be breathtaking. We are so lucky to live here. Click on the images to see larger versions.
These definitely look better in color! LOL Is the bottom pic of raspberries? I ask because we found that exact berry growing wild nearby, picked and ate a bunch of them, but someone told me they are "wineberries", not actually raspberries. because raspberries are more cone-shaped. In any case, they were GOOD!
Stan, This is black raspberry Rubus occidentalis, which started to grow on its own on our front lawn. The fruit is really good. According to wikipedia: The black raspberry is closely related to the red raspberries Rubus idaeus and Rubus strigosus, sharing the distinctively white underside of the leaves and fruit that readily detaches from the carpel, but differing in the ripe fruit being black, and in the stems being more prickly. The black fruit makes them look like blackberries, though this is only superficial, with the taste being unique and not like either the red raspberry or the blackberry. In much of the Mid-Atlantic United States, black raspberries are simply called blackberries, even though they are not.
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These definitely look better in color! LOL
Is the bottom pic of raspberries? I ask because we found that exact berry growing wild nearby, picked and ate a bunch of them, but someone told me they are "wineberries", not actually raspberries. because raspberries are more cone-shaped. In any case, they were GOOD!
Stan,
This is black raspberry Rubus occidentalis, which started to grow on its own on our front lawn. The fruit is really good. According to wikipedia: The black raspberry is closely related to the red raspberries Rubus idaeus and Rubus strigosus, sharing the distinctively white underside of the leaves and fruit that readily detaches from the carpel, but differing in the ripe fruit being black, and in the stems being more prickly. The black fruit makes them look like blackberries, though this is only superficial, with the taste being unique and not like either the red raspberry or the blackberry. In much of the Mid-Atlantic United States, black raspberries are simply called blackberries, even though they are not.
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