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The garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa, is a cultivated hybrid in the rose family that arose in Europe from crosses between the North American Fragaria virginiana and the Chilean Fragaria chiloensis. Its familiar red edible portion is an enlarged receptacle rather than a botanical berry, while t...

The marionberry is a cultivated blackberry hybrid developed through the United States Department of Agriculture breeding program in cooperation with Oregon State University. Released in 1956, it was named for Marion County, Oregon, where it underwent extensive field testing. The berry is known for i...

Fragaria vesca, commonly called wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, or alpine strawberry, is a perennial plant in the rose family with a broad native distribution across the Northern Hemisphere. It produces small aggregate fruits formed from an enlarged receptacle, with the true fruits appearing a...

Rubus fruticosus agg. is a collective botanical name applied to a complex group of closely related European blackberry plants in the rose family. These perennial brambles typically produce arching or trailing canes, compound leaves, and aggregate fruits composed of many small drupelets that turn dar...

Mara des Bois is a French everbearing garden-strawberry cultivar introduced in 1991 and bred for a fragrance and flavor reminiscent of the wild woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca. It produces relatively small to medium-sized red fruit over an extended season rather than in a single concentrated cro...

The boysenberry is a cultivated bramble fruit generally described as a complex hybrid involving blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry ancestry. Rudolph Boysen developed the plant in California, and nurseryman Walter Knott later cultivated and marketed it after locating surviving vines. The fruit is...

The boysenberry is a large aggregate fruit in the genus Rubus, generally described as a hybrid involving blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry ancestry. Rudolph Boysen cultivated the fruit in California in the 1920s, and Walter Knott later propagated and sold it, helping establish the berry's associ...

Cloudberry, or Rubus chamaemorus, is a low-growing perennial plant in the rose family found across Arctic and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It produces aggregate fruits that ripen from red to amber or golden orange and commonly grows in bogs, peatlands, and tundra. The fruit is gathe...

Black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, is a deciduous bramble in the rose family native to eastern North America. Its dark aggregate fruit resembles a blackberry, but a ripe black raspberry separates cleanly from the receptacle and is therefore hollow at the center when picked. The plant grows on arch...

Triple Crown is a thornless blackberry cultivar released by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1996. It has a semi-erect growth habit and produces large, sweet fruit that ripens over an extended period, typically later than many other blackberry cultivars. Its lack of thorns, fruit quali...

The Saskatoon berry is the fruit of Amelanchier alnifolia, a deciduous shrub native to western and north-central North America. Its small purple fruits resemble blueberries in appearance but are botanically pomes related to apples and pears. The berries have long been used by Indigenous peoples, inc...

Natchez is a thornless, erect-growing blackberry cultivar released by the University of Arkansas breeding program in 2007. It produces large, elongated berries that ripen early in the blackberry season and are intended primarily for fresh consumption. The cultivar is suited to growers seeking thornl...

The loganberry, Rubus × loganobaccus, is a cultivated hybrid associated with both blackberry and red raspberry ancestry. It was first raised by Judge James Harvey Logan in Santa Cruz, California, during the nineteenth century. The plant bears elongated, dark red fruit with a tart flavor and grows on...

The tayberry is a cultivated cane fruit produced by crossing a red raspberry with a blackberry. It was bred at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, introduced in 1979, and named after Scotland's River Tay. The plant bears elongated, dark red to purple fruit with a sweet-tart flavor and is grown for...

Amelanchier canadensis, commonly called Canadian serviceberry, shadblow serviceberry, or juneberry, is a deciduous shrub or small tree in the rose family native to eastern North America. It produces clusters of white flowers in spring followed by edible, dark purple fruits in early summer. The fruit...

Albion is a day neutral cultivar of the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa, released by the University of California, Davis in 2004. It produces fruit over an extended season under suitable conditions and is known for large, firm berries with good flavor and shipping quality. The plants have res...

Ouachita is an erect, thornless blackberry cultivar developed by the University of Arkansas breeding program and released in 2003. It produces firm, glossy black fruit on self-supporting canes and was selected for commercial production, local markets, and home gardens in regions suited to its growin...

Mora de Castilla is the cultivated fruit of Rubus glaucus, an Andean bramble in the rose family related to blackberries and raspberries. It grows as a thorny perennial cane and bears dark red to purple aggregate fruits with an acidic flavor, commonly processed into juice, preserves, desserts, and ot...

Allegheny serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis, is a deciduous shrub or small tree in the rose family native to eastern North America. It produces clusters of white flowers in spring, followed by edible fruits that ripen from red to dark purple or blue-black and are consumed by birds and other wildlife....

Seascape is a day-neutral garden strawberry cultivar, Fragaria x ananassa, released by the University of California, Davis, in 1991. It was developed for production across an extended growing season and became associated particularly with coastal California cultivation. The plants produce firm fruit...

Chester Thornless is a thornless blackberry cultivar released by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1985. It has a semi-erect growth habit, produces fruit relatively late in the blackberry season, and is known for high yields and greater winter hardiness than many trailing types. Its tho...

Rubus × neglectus, commonly called the purple raspberry, is a hybrid involving the red raspberry and the black raspberry within the rose family, Rosaceae. It forms perennial root systems with biennial fruiting canes and produces aggregate fruits that mature to a dark reddish purple. Its fruit and gr...

Camarosa is a short-day cultivar of the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa, released by the University of California, Davis, in 1992. It became important in California commercial production because of its high yield and large, firm fruit, characteristics suited to harvesting, packing, and transp...

Shrubby cinquefoil, Dasiphora fruticosa, is a deciduous flowering shrub with a broad circumboreal distribution across northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. It typically has small divided leaves and five-petaled yellow flowers, although cultivated forms include white, pink, and orange-...

Swamp rose, Rosa palustris, is a deciduous shrub native to eastern North America and adapted to marshes, swamps, wet meadows, and the edges of streams and ponds. It bears fragrant pink flowers with five petals, typically during summer, followed by red rose hips. Unlike many roses, it tolerates satur...

Wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius, is a deciduous, fruit-bearing bramble in the rose family that is native to eastern Asia. Its arching canes are densely covered with reddish hairs, and its red aggregate fruits develop inside bristly sepals that open as the berries ripen. Introduced to North America i...

Japanese wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius, is a deciduous, fruit-bearing bramble in the rose family native to East Asia. It produces arching reddish canes covered with glandular hairs, white flowers, and edible orange-red aggregate fruits enclosed by hairy sepals before ripening. Introduced to North...

Korona is a Dutch June-bearing strawberry from the 1980s, widely grown across northern Europe for its high yield, disease resistance, and moderately firm, flavorful fruit.

Rosa rugosa is a thorny shrub native to eastern Asia whose large red hips are among the richest plant sources of vitamin C, widely used in herbal teas and preserves.