BLACKBERRY OFFERS TASTY AND HEALTHY FRUIT AND MEDICINAL LEAVES
NAME: BLACKBERRY (Rubus spp.)
NAME: BLACKBERRY (Rubus spp.)
Blackberry is a member of the rose household, which accommodates 110 genera and three,000 species worldwide.
DESCRIPTION
The genus, Rubus, accommodates about 400 to 750 species worldwide. This genus consists of such crops as the numerous species of blackberries, raspberries, thimbleberries and others.
Even non-botanists can normally establish the vine and fruit of this quite common plant. The leaves are palmately divided (like a hand) into three, 5 or seven segments. The vines twine on the bottom or over low hedges and are characterised by their thorns, which make it troublesome to wade too deeply into any of the
