Friday, August 23, 2019

Blackberries


We have all 3 wild blackberries here, including the native Pacific, which is the trailing blackberry that trips me in the woods; the Himalayan with its invasive, thickets with delicious berries; and the Evergreen with its finely dissected leaves, also invasive but not as overwhelming as the Himalayas. I took photos of all 3 growing together along our lane to the pump pasture. the back side of the Himalaya leaves is light.

Evergreen upper left, himalaya center, Pacific lower

back side of 5 leaflet Himalayas

back side of native 3 leaflet Pacific

5 leaflet Evergreen (highly dissected leaflets)

5 leaflet Himalaya

3 leaflet Pacific (only native blackberry)

Pacific in its usual ground crawling position

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