Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

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. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. The greenhouse nursery 81 s. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. Alternate flowers and fruit.

Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread.

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. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Also it s hardy.

There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color.

Succeeds in deep shade.