3-6' × 6-12' Also called False Raspberry, Ornamental Raspberry or Purple-flowering Raspberry.
Thornless relative of the cultivated raspberry, grown for its fragrant rosy-purple flowers and nutritious fruit. Fruit is edible right off the shrub, but you’ll find it to be drier and a bit more tart than other raspberries. Improves when cooked for jams or desserts. The berries contain phytonutrients ellagic acid and resveratrol, regenerative and beneficial to health.
Long-blooming, from June to August, and very attractive to pollinators. An excellent addition to wildlife hedges. Canes will sucker by sending up new shoots to spread into a dense colony. New leaves can be made into a medicinal tea much like its fruiting cousin, the red raspberry. Lobed palmate leaves fade to pale yellow in the fall.
Tolerates a range of conditions, average to acidic soil, sun or shade. Low maintenance and easy to grow. Native to eastern North America. Zone 4.
Maine Grown.