Wild raspberries?

amalgamate · Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:20 am

I was about to start pulling out plants that are overcrowding the honeysuckle when I spotted one with thorns. It looks like raspberry leaves on it, but I'm not familiar enough with the berry to identify it. Are wild raspberry leaves white on the underside?

!potatoes! · Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:47 am

wild blackcaps are. black raspberries.

amalgamate · Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:40 am

Thanks! I'll let this one continue to grow and see if it produces this year.

amalgamate · Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:23 am

I asked my FIL about the berries (it's actually his land; we just live on it), and he said "Blackberries used to grow all along the woods, but they haven't produced anything the last couple of years." I imagine whether they're blackberries or black raspberries, he'd just call them all "blackberries."

But I started looking around some more and realized they are 2 different plants growing. Both have thorns on the canes/stems, with small spikey hairs or thorns on the underside of the leaves as well.

This one I noticed first. It has no blooms yet, so the main difference I noticed was that the underside of the leaves are white.

[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7120/7128539515_11cf260ee7.jpg[/img]

Then I noticed this one. It has white flowers and tiny green berry clusters growing. Some of the berries are brown and dead, but we also had a frost a couple of weeks ago. The underside of these leaves are green.

[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7242/7128538163_f892e5e34f.jpg[/img]

I know I could just wait it out and see what berries grow, but patience is not my virtue. Anyone know what I'm looking at?