Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Succeeds in deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants. Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open.

Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover.

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. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty.

Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Also it s hardy. Alternate flowers and fruit.

Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious.

Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.