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NAME: Wineberry
SPECIES / FAMILY: Rubus Phoenicolasius / Rosaceae
OTHER COMMON NAME(S): Japanese wineberry
CONDITIONS:
sun-partial shade
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TASTE |
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sweet |
RAW/DRY/COOK |
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PORTION: small-medium
COMMENT: Wineberries are plentiful non-natives, used as rootstock for our cultivar raspberries, and sticky to the touch. Delicious! // Fruit - raw or cooked. Sweet and juicy, A raspberry-type fruit, it is smaller than a raspberry, contains rather a lot of seeds and is not quite such a flavourful fruit, but it makes very nice eating all the same. After flowering, the fruit is enclosed in its calyx until just before it is ripe, this prevents maggots etc getting into the fruit.(1)
CAUTION:
NUTRITION/MEDICINAL:
LOOK-A-LIKES: native raspberries and blackberries
POISONOUS LOOK-A-LIKES:
OTHER USES: Dye. A purple to dull blue dye is obtained from the fruit.(1)
SOURCE LINKS (may include nutritional and medicinal info, plus other uses):
- https://pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?latinname=Rubus+phoenicolasius
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_phoenicolasius
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rubus_phoenicolasius (good photos)
- https://fow.org/wineberries-summer-treat
- https://infinitespider.com/wineberry-the-edible-invasive (good photos, but don't agree with take on invasives)
- http://tcpermaculture.com/site/2014/10/23/permaculture-plants-wineberry
- https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/picking-and-preserving-the-wineberry-zmaz82jazgoe (recipe)
- https://localkitchenblog.com/2009/08/02/wild-wineberry-preserves (recipe)
- https://farmersdaughterct.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/wineberry-pie (recipe)
- http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request167.asp (recipe)
- https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/cooking-tips/article/class-up-your-summer-party-make-a-wineberry-cordial (recipe)
- https://food52.com/recipes/36922-wild-wineberry-lemon-balm-sorbet (recipe)