Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry Edible

While the orange fruit is edible and tasty each raspberry is tiny and the plant does not produce huge yields.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry edible.

Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles. The edible fruits follow white flowers which are borne in early summer. It s tough and drought tolerant once established. Rubus calycinoides emerald carpet rubus hayata koidzumii is probably better known by the illegitimate synonym rubus calycinoides or as creeping raspberry.

The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization. Grows in sun or shade. Rubus calycinoides creeping raspberry is an evergreen groundcover forming a dense carpet adorned with long spreading branches clothed in lustrous emerald green thickly textured leaves. Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr.

Plant on an open north or east side for the best. Creeping raspberry fruits are similar in appearance to blackberries or red raspberries but differ in that their color is yellow to orangish red. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus syn.

Leaves alternate simple broadly oval rounded 2 4 cm long and wide 3 5 lobes base deeply cordate margins undulate and sharply serrate deep green pubescent underneath. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good. Rubus pentalobus emerald carpet creeping raspberry boething treeland farms grows over 1 200 varieties of trees shrubs perennials and specialty plants on ten california nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the western united states and beyond.

Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. There are no known pests or diseases which affect the creeping raspberry.