Blackberry - Fruit Shrub - Rubus fruitcosus - 5 Seeds

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Common Blackberry. Blackberries are perennial plants which typically bear biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem, the primocane, grows vigorously to its full length of 36 m (in some cases, up to 9 m), arching or trailing along the ground and bearing large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the cane becomes a floricane and the stem does not grow longer, but the lateral buds break to produce flowering laterals (which have smaller leaves with three or five leaflets). First- and second-year shoots usually have numerous short-curved, very sharp prickles that are often erroneously called thorns. These prickles can tear through denim with ease and make the plant very difficult to navigate around. Unmanaged mature plants form a tangle of dense arching stems, the branches rooting from the node tip on many species when they reach the ground. Vigorous and growing rapidly in woods, scrub, hillsides, and hedgerows, blackberry shrubs tolerate poor soils, readily colonizing wasteland, ditches, and vacant lots. The flowers are produced in late spring and early summer on short racemes on the tips of the flowering laterals. Each flower is about 23 cm in diameter with five white or pale pink petals.

 Requires 60 days of cold stratification.

Our offices will be closing at 1 pm on Friday 13 December 2024 and will reopen on Monday 6 January 2025.

Orders received between Thursday 4 pm on 12 December 2024 and Monday 6 January 2025 will be shipped between Monday 6 January and Friday 10 January 2025.

Thereafter normal shipping days apply.