There are over 330 species of bramble in the UK. This helps explain why not all blackberries taste the same. The scientific name for the plant we recognise as a blackberry bush is Rubus fruticosus ...

It is any berry that grows from a proper bramble. What makes a bramble a bramble? Geyer says that brambles, quite simply, are designed to ramble. "They want to live in the edge of a clearing," she ...