A Blackberry is Not Really a Berry - Green Thumb Sunday
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A raspberry (and blackberry) is not a true berry. Instead one blackberry is actually comprised of many drupelets, and is technically an aggregate fruit.
Each incipient drupelet has its own stigma and good pollination requires the delivery of many grains of pollen to the flower so that all drupelets develop. Here's a well-pollinated blackberry photo from answers.com.
Here is a blossom from my blackberry bush.
Here's the above blossom again. Photo taken last week.
A drupelet is a botanical term for a fleshy fruit with a single stone enclosing the seed that does not split along defined lines to liberate the seed.
Each incipient drupelet has its own stigma and good pollination requires the delivery of many grains of pollen to the flower so that all drupelets develop. Here's a well-pollinated blackberry photo from answers.com.
Here is a blossom from my blackberry bush.
Here's the above blossom again. Photo taken last week.
A drupelet is a botanical term for a fleshy fruit with a single stone enclosing the seed that does not split along defined lines to liberate the seed.
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3 comments:
Do blackberries run rampant in your area? They do here, and people can be seen picking them in the parks and along roads everywhere. They're great but a bugger to remove from the many areas where they spread.
I see lots of berries here though I cannot identify which is edible or poisonous perhaps...that blossom is really tiny! Hope to see the fruits soon...happy GTS!
I didn’t know that we could grow blackberries in S. Florida. Let me know if you have good luck with it. I am always looking for something new for my garden, and I love blackberries with yogurt.
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