Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Succeeds in deep shade.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together.

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. Under 6 tall 18 24 spread. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty.

Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color.

The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Rubus calcynoides is a fast and low growing wide spreading attractive groundcover that suppresses weeds produces edible berries and provides year round visual interest with its leaves that change colors with the season. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom.

Also it s hardy.