Chinese blackberry seed

LATIN NAME: RUBUS SUAVISSIMUS

COMMON NAME: Chinese Blackberry

The Chinese blackberry dapples the arching, prickly-stemmed shrub with the lobed, toothed leaves and the small, white, five-petalled flowers that open through the early summer, the clusters of the small, round, dark-red to black berries following and ripening through the late summer, the berries dappling the canes with the colour, the sweet fruit holding the many tiny seeds. The shrub grows into the dense, arching thicket, and it likes the sun or the part shade, and the moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The sweet fruit of the Chinese blackberry gives it a recognised place in the research on the warm-climate bramble fruits of the rose family, and the suavissimus species appears in the studies of the fruit chemistry and the arching-cane spread. The work looks at the way the canes root and thicket, the sweet berries, and the seed biology. The food scientists value the fruit, and the growers of the bramble fruit shrubs keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm garden, the Chinese blackberry dapples the late-summer canes with the sweet berries. The berries serve the table, the jams and the drinks for the ages, they feed the birds, and the thicket clothes the fence and the wild corner. It grows well in the moist, well-drained, sunny or lightly shaded ground. Sweet, arching and bird-fed.

To grow the Chinese Blackberry from seed, crush the ripe berries, then rinse the seeds free, press them into the moist, gritty drills of the tray, keep the tray in the bright, cool spot and mist lightly, and the seedlings surface within a few weeks.

Keep the tray bright and lightly misted, and pot the seedlings on as they grow. The dappled berries come within the season or two. Stand the young canes in the moist, sheltered ground, and the dappled berries will colour through the season.

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