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Rubus ideaus
English: Raspberry
Spanish: Frambueso
Estonian: Harilik vaarikas
Portuguese: Framboeseiro
Raspberry is a fruit-bush found wild in
Great Britain and in woods throughout
Europe, North Africa and in north and west
Asia and commonly cultivated in
other temperate regions.
Albanian: Mjeder
Turkish: Ahududu
Catalan: Gerd
A fruit-bush found wild in Great Britain and
in woods throughout Europe, North Africa
and in north and west Asia.
Fruit
The fruit is an important food crop.
The fruits of wild plants have a
Flowers
Leaves sweet taste and are very aromatic.
Leaves are alternate and compound An individual raspberry weighs
with 3 or 5 leaflets, mostly in 3s on 3–5 g.
flowering stems and pinnately in 5s on
3 to 8 stalked flowers in loose non-flowering stems. Leaflets are egg-
clusters at the tips and upper leaf shaped to oblong, the center leaflet is
axils of 1-year-old stems. Flowers stalked and sometimes 2 or 3 lobed,
are white. the lateral leaflets stalkless and
unlobed.
Authors: Otto Kokk, Ehard Kuusk