#blackcap raspberry

[turtlesandfrogs]

Soon

[loungemermaid]

The gift post by @rosegardeninwinter got me thinking, because I’m definitely a food as a gift person. (Seriously usually would rather go out for a fancy meal than get something fancy) and so I present the Types of Food I think would be each of their favorites to get as gifts, based partly on how rare it was for them to get growing up.

Peeta’s favorite things are always foraged things. Blackcap raspberries, morels, dandelions, ramps, persimmons, pawpaws, acorn flour pancakes. Herbal teas. Fresh fruits and vegetables especially are his thing, after growing up mostly on stale bread. And of course, squirrel.

Katniss is the complete opposite. Sweet rolls, cheese buns, homemade egg noodles with butter or gravy, meatballs, cheesy potatoes, and sweets. So much chocolate and frosting and ice cream and maple taffy and drop candy and doughnuts and candied orange slices. And caramel. Peeta makes her caramel and she makes herself sick on it the first time.

They both love “exotic” fruit, once they can get it regularly. They buy cases of oranges and peel them for each other and eat them until it makes their mouths break out. Same once they discover pineapple. They grow melons in their little garden patch. Every late spring they get bags and bags of cherries, every late summer crates and crates of peaches. It gets so gotdamn hot in the summer all they wanna eat is fruit salads with plenty of whip cream. Katniss never gets over the taste of cold fruit straight from the fridge and she’ll wake up some nights and sit in front of the fridge door just eating cold strawberries she’d foraged earlier in the week.

Anyway, yeah. Food as gifts and food as healing

[i-just-wanna-vote-on-fruit]

@dawnforger-fr

Saw your tags on the fruit poll, and figured I’d help you figure out what kind of blackberry you have.

There are lots of rubus that can be found in California, including lots of native ones and some invasive ones.

The one I most commonly see, especially in inland areas dry and hot enough enough that the grassy landscape turns gold all summer, is an invasive species named Rubus armeniacus, Himalayan blackberry. That one usually has leaves-of-five instead of leaves-of-three, and the stems are thick, often as thick than a pinky at the base or if it’s older thicker than a thumb (1 inch). They have ridges along the stems (because of these ridges, if you clip off a section of stem and look at the cross section, it would be hexagonal). These stems are smooth with relatively few thorns, which are as big as the thorns on garden roses. They’re sharp and long enough to stab me even through jeans. The thorns are sparse enough that you should be able to carefully grab the bare spots on the stems to move them without touching any thorns. They don’t tend to creep along the ground as often as the others, and are usually strong enough to grow up or diagonally unsupported for a few feet in length before they get long/heavy enough for the tip to weigh back to the ground to form bramble thickets— although they will also climb fences and trees and cover and smother smaller shrubs. The seeds in the blackberries are large. They get stuck in my molars sometimes. When I see these I tend to try to eat as many as possible so that they don’t spread as bad.

I also see California blackberry (mentioned in the post) a lot, but usually in wetter areas such as on the coast, or near creeks and other riparian zones. These ones always have leaves-of-three. The stems are much thinner, more akin to the width of a vein or tendon on the back of your hand (~1 cm), and have no ridges (if you cut the stem and looked at it you would see a round cross section). They are coated in tiny needle like thorns, so dense that it’s impossible to grab a stem by your fingertips without touching a few thorns. These thorns are soft enough that they can’t prick you through a sturdy layer of fabric, although they might cause a stem to cling to a flannel shirt like Velcro. California blackberry stems are thin and weak, and usually crawl on the ground or trailing on top of fences or plant matter. Often I will see it in the same thicket as Himalayan blackberry, using the much stiffer Himalayan stems as support to reach the same height. If it can support its own weight it’s definitely not California blackberry. The berries have much smaller seeds (that don’t tend to get caught in my teeth), and a lot of people prefer the berry flavor (although the growing conditions and ripeness may affect flavor a lot more than the species of blackberry does.)

Occasionally thickets that contain both of the above will also contain hybrids. The hybrids are really wonky from their genetic diversity— for example, sometimes they have as dense of a pattern of thorns as California blackberry does, but they’re HUGE thorns that grow as long as the ones Himalayan blackberries have. Don’t worry about this one, they’re pretty rare. Rare enough that I can’t find any links or pictures.

Whitebark raspberry seems to be the only other native rubus that seems likely to be called a blackberry, and it’s comparatively a lot more rare, at least in my area (I’m in Northern California). Whitebark raspberry, also called blackcap raspberry, black raspberry, or blue raspberry, looks somewhat similar to California blackberry, but it can stand up unsupported, has leaves-of-five as well as leaves-of-three, and the backs of the leaves and often stems are coated in a silvery substance. These plants produce dark raspberries that look like blackberries, but are less glossy/shiny. These berries are what “blue raspberry” artificial flavor is trying to imitate.

Thimbleberry is also a rubus, and so are salmonberry, snow raspberry, San Diego raspberry, and red raspberry, but we can rule all of them out because their berries don’t look like blackberries. Rough fruit berry, Rubus lasiococcus, is a blackberry, but it’s supposed to stay red and hairy instead of turning black, so it isn’t easy to mistake for a California blackberry.

Other than that, I don’t know of any blackberry or blackberry-adjacent plants that grow wild in California.

Hope that this was interesting! If you ever happen to find out which one your blackberries are, I’d be super interested in hearing.

Also, once you have finished reading this post, if you were to press like, it would be mildly helpful. That way I know to stop editing and adding more information because you would not be seeing any further edits anymore, lol

[gardenrables]

First ripe blackcap raspberries in my yard this year. This patch showed up on its own, and I get tasty berries for the low, low cost of not doing anything (I do occasionally pull bindweed off them and remove dead canes, but that's it). Native plants for the win!

[filoliquors]

We will be tasting Canadian 298 Apple Liqueur, Cascade Blackcap Raspberry, Western Son Strawberry Vodka and Risata Blueberry Semi-Sweet Wine this Friday, 12 Aug from 2pm to 8pm and 13 Aug from 12pm to 8pm.  #abilenetexas #BuffaloGapTexas #BairdTexas #ComeandDrinkIt #BradshawTexas #tuscola #TyeTexas #TrentTexas #eulatexas #rotantexas #robytexas #potositexas #clydetexas #MerkelTexas #ViewTexas #CapsTexas #hawleytexas #hambytexas #colemantexas #AbileneWylie #MilesTexas #FILOAbilene (at FILO Liquors) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChI0bV3LHbP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[zinjanthropusboisei]

Me during most of the year: I like the idea of foraging but i don't fully trust my ID skills beyond a couple basic things so it's more aspirational atm than anything else

Me during blackcap season: i am a child of the forest, i live off the boons of mother earth, i will shank you if you intrude upon my berry picking territory

[shaela-flowers]

[turtlesandfrogs]

One of the things I'm doing with my garden is including more native species, which means I just ate the first ripe blackcap raspberry of the year:

... it may have been under ripe, as I the embodiment of impatience.

But you know it's pretty awesome that I planted one black cap raspberry, and this one volunteered a couple years later. In exchange for not ripping it out, I get tasty berries that I don't have to baby and simultaneously support native animal species.

[chrisbeckstrom]

Family Berry Picking

It was so hot even the mosquitos seemed to be taking a break. And yet there we were, right off the North Country Trail, picking wild black raspberries.

I found this spot a few weeks ago and had a feeling it would be bursting with ripe berries about now. It was!

Claire, June, and I could only handle the heat for about a half hour, but during that time we collected two large containers of berries.

Somehow Claire avoided “berry fingers.” I was not so lucky! Perhaps I need to improve my picking technique.

June was asleep in the carrier for most of it. Maybe next year she’ll help pick.

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[parttimepermies]

Guess what time it is! My wild raspberry picking rule: if you drop one, you aren't allowed to pick it back up. It's now there to add to the new vines. #raspberries #blackcaps #wildfood #wildraspberries #yum #foraging https://www.instagram.com/p/CCL2NF7gER8/?igshid=rx1tmp2u1uor

[waspgrave]

m/f/m is the worst of the worst when it comes to het so it's not shocking you like it

god you are so right - m/m/f has just as much potential to it. No one talks about how equality might lie within a man being held tenderly between two lovers.

But also, side note - did you know there is an actual blue raspberry fruit? It's not exactly the blue raspberry flavor we know, which is a mix of pineapple, cherries, etc, dyed blue to make it more appetizing back in the 50s when there was a scare over the color red and artificial flavors and whatnot - now it exists to differentiate raspberry, watermelon, cherry, and strawberry! Watermelon is often paired with green/red (so not to get confused with apple, which is always green), cherry a vivid red, raspberry a purple-ish red, and strawberry a pink!

But, the actual blue raspberry originally comes from the plant known as rubus leucodermis, a type of raspberry also known as the whitebark raspberry, blackcap raspberry or blue raspberry. And it's native to North America! So while people tend to assume there is no actual blue raspberry out there, there is! (though it's usually purple or black when ripened, so don't look at the photoshop images and get too excited)

[psound74]

Summer bounty! #raspberries #blackcaps (at South New Berlin, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bPYa_gRGF/?igshid=ykqic7isx9ng

[fuckingrecipes]

Fruit Fact!

“Blue Raspberry” flavoring is actually from the Wild Blackcap, aka Whitebark Raspberry aka Black Raspberry. 

It’s native to North America, from Alaska to Arizona. It was particularly prolific around my parent’s house, growing wild in thick fields of thorns and tasty berries, and due to its naturally sweet and sour flavor, it made a fantastic pie filling despite the seeds. 

It’s more of a dark purple than blue, and the juice stains bright pink, but it’s distinct from normal red raspberries in flavor. 

Another distinct raspberry? Golden Raspberries! 

Their flavor is significantly sweeter than a red raspberry, and more mild. It reminds me a bit of cotton candy, as far as pure syrupy candy sweetness.  They’re incredibly fragile when ripe, so it’s hard to ship them to sell.  Golden Raspberries grow quite well in North America as well - Mine took a year to establish, and then fruited like crazy in its second year. 

[yamtroid]

blackcap raspberry

[summerwages]

Blackcap raspberry...Rubus Leucodermis...