Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry Edible

Rubus calycinoides emerald carpet rubus hayata koidzumii is probably better known by the illegitimate synonym rubus calycinoides or as creeping raspberry.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry edible. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. Grows in sun or shade. Plant on an open north or east side for the best.

There are no known pests or diseases which affect the creeping raspberry. Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. While the orange fruit is edible and tasty each raspberry is tiny and the plant does not produce huge yields. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration.

The edible fruits follow white flowers which are borne in early summer. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Creeping raspberry fruits are similar in appearance to blackberries or red raspberries but differ in that their color is yellow to orangish red. Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr.

The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus syn. 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. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate.

The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles. You can eat creeping raspberry fruit but don t expect much more than a mouthful. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good.

Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Calycinoides has small leathery leaves and orange fruit on a 4 to 8 inch plants. It s tough and drought tolerant once established. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom.