Raspberry seeds «Temptation»

Raspberry strawberry / Rubus illecebrosus

This is a rounded semi-shrub from 30 to 60 cm tall, with a creeping rhizome that gives new shoots at a distance of more than half a meter from the bush, forms thickets. It has several vertical herbaceous stems with green bark, woody only at the very base.

The leaves are alternate, petiolate, pinnate, consist of 3-7 serrated along the edge oblong-lanceolate leaflets 3-8 cm long. The stems and petioles of the leaves are covered with curved clinging spines. The flowers are rather large, five-petalled, 2.5-4 cm in diameter, white, bisexual, in few-flowered inflorescences located at the tops of the stems, sometimes solitary.

The fruits are very decorative - juicy polydrupes 3-4.5 cm in diameter, round or broadly elliptical in shape, luminous coral-red color. In size and appearance, they really resemble strawberries, but are easily separated from the receptacle, like raspberries. To taste, they are not like either one or the other berry, sweet and sour and slightly fragrant.

Sweetness and aroma are revealed only when fully ripe. You won’t eat much of them raw, but for home-made preparations and winemaking, where sourness is simply necessary, this is a valuable berry.