Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Succeeds in deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. 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. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together.

Also it s hardy. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. 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. Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.

Alternate flowers and fruit. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters.