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    Can anyone tell me what this berry is
    Its next to my raspberry canes that are almost finished but I have had these small green berries for about six weeks now with no change in them.
    Thank you
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  • #2
    Blackberries or Raspberries would be my guess.

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    • #3
      Thanks possibly blackberries then bacause my rasps are about finished and they were planted at the same time.
      I didnt label them because I was sure I would remember

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      • #4
        They don't look thorny enough to be blackberries and the leaves look a bit more like raspberries to me.
        If the stems have masses of tiny thorns, they'll be raspberries. If the stems have large and more sparse rose-like thorns, they'll be blackberries.
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        • #5
          Just gone and checked,they have small thorns ,about every inch or so along the stem

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          • #6
            Definitely not raspberries. Are they definitely something you have planted or are they a rogue. They look very much like the wineberry.

            Ian

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            • #7
              thank you Ian.I googled wineberry and I would believe that is what they are. I certainly didnt buy them as wineberries as I had never heard of them before.
              Thank you for your help

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              • #8
                Look like brambles to me.
                Urban Escape Blog

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                • #9
                  Looks like small blackberries to me.

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                  • #10
                    its an intresting rubus of some sort, wineberries tend to have red stems, with many prickles and the berries are hidden within petals untill nearly ripe, the petals and berries may feel slightly tacky to the touch,
                    looking at the berries it sort of resembles a dewberry of some type, but the stems of dewberry tend to be thin and wiry, the canes look quite thick from the picture,
                    my other guess is its a hybrid seedling rubus (blackberryxraspberry or other family member) this may explain the uneven nature of the druplets of the berries, or a seedling blackberry, which it may be which would explain the later ripening than most main crop raspberries and again the uneven size of berry druplets, if you could cut a a couple of pieces of cane and take a close up picture i may be able to give you a better guess of what it could be,
                    stew

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                    • #11
                      also if possible a discription of growth habit, tall , short, rambling, creeping, upright growth, sprawling?,

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                      • #12
                        I was going to say wineberry before gojiberry beat me to it! I have blackberries and raspberries growing with abandon in my 'garden still to be tamed' but no hybrids that match the picture. The fruits growing in my inherited garden have been here for years!

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                        • #13
                          wineberry pic attched for cross identification
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                          • #14
                            Thanks swaine,I will try and get a photo of branch and leaves as soon as possible but it is lashing it down here and I am not going out in it
                            It is a tall upright plant

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