Summer Days of Wineberries and Rosaceae

Summer Days of Wineberries and Rosaceae
Hort Shorts
Authors
Jim Chatfield
Published on
August 4, 2016
As my wife and I walked through the Virginia woods in Shenandoah National Park last week I
realized once again, that I knew less than I thought about a familiar genus – Rubus, a member
of the Rosaceae family of related genera. My favorite is Rubus occidentalis,the black raspberry,
a few quarts-worth of which my wife picks each year from our backyard in June: Its earthy
sweetness is unparalleled. Rubus odoratus,the purple-flowered raspberry, is seen in the
ornamental trade and is fairly common in Ohio woodlands.
Then there are the hybrids and cultivars of commercial red raspberries and blackberries,
wonderfully toothsome, though some people dislike their seediness. The list goes on much
longer than I imagined, with literally hundreds of species of Rubusworldwide, including
loganberries and boysenberries. Back to that Skyline Drive trail, unarmed with this subsequent
knowledge of Rubusdiversity, we came upon what we guessed was a wild red raspberry, though
something looked a little different.
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