This bramble berry grows on shrub-like plants, and forms small raspberry-looking fruit in clusters. Thimbleberries are quite sweet and make a really nice plant to have for foraging in your yard.

A blackberry bramble that grows wild and has not been picked tends to bear sweeter, softer fruit. Blackberries that have just turned black, or ripe, are slightly more tart, firm, and acidic ...

In a strict botanical sense, a blackberry is not a berry but an aggregate fruit made up of tiny 'drupelets'. ... View Plant detectives: How bramble and co. can help solve crimes.

Does the plant have any uses? Edible fruits. Contact Ian Pattrick on 079 909 5458 or Hillcrest Conservancy chairman, George Victor, on 073 901 3902 or e-mail georgevic@telkomsa.net ...