Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry Edible

The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry edible.

Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. The edible fruits follow white flowers which are borne in early summer. Rubus calycinoides creeping raspberry is an evergreen groundcover forming a dense carpet adorned with long spreading branches clothed in lustrous emerald green thickly textured leaves. Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles.

Plant on an open north or east side for the best. Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. Leaves alternate simple broadly oval rounded 2 4 cm long and wide 3 5 lobes base deeply cordate margins undulate and sharply serrate deep green pubescent underneath.

Rubus pentalobus emerald carpet creeping raspberry boething treeland farms grows over 1 200 varieties of trees shrubs perennials and specialty plants on ten california nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the western united states and beyond. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate. Grows in sun or shade. Creeping raspberry fruits are similar in appearance to blackberries or red raspberries but differ in that their color is yellow to orangish red.

Rubus calycinoides emerald carpet rubus hayata koidzumii is probably better known by the illegitimate synonym rubus calycinoides or as creeping raspberry. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights.

It s tough and drought tolerant once established. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus syn. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus.

Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. You can eat creeping raspberry fruit but don t expect much more than a mouthful. Calycinoides has small leathery leaves and orange fruit on a 4 to 8 inch plants. While the orange fruit is edible and tasty each raspberry is tiny and the plant does not produce huge yields.