Raspberry

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Raspberry
Raspberry

A Raspberry is an aggreate fruit, meaning it is many fruits joined together.

It typically grows in forest clearings or fields where fire or wood-cutting has produced open space. The raspberry flower can be a nectar source for honeybees. As a cultivated plant in moist temperate regions, it is easy to grow. It has a tendency to spread unless cut back.

Two types can be bought in stores: the wild-type summer bearing, which produces fruit in the summer, and double- or "ever"-bearing plants, which also bear fruit in the summer.

Leaves of the raspberry are used fresh or dried in herbal teas. Leaves are found in groups of 3 or 5 and the undersides are silver-white in color. Blackberries have similar looking leaves but the undersides are green.