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When the wind blows, autumn olive bushes look silvery gray from a distance.

Black Raspberry

RANGE:

Coast to coast, with over 600 Rubus species; especially prolific in the Pacific Northwest. Besides tasty black raspberries, they include bushy blackberries, colorful raspberries, and the trailing, vine-like dewberries.

HABITAT:

At edges of woodland, fields and clearings, along paths, near logging roads, at the base of road cuts

POSITIVE ID:

• Black raspberry is a thorny bush with light green, round canes that arc towards the ground where the tips may root.

• New light green canes often have a whitish, waxy coating that can be rubbed off easily.

• Last year’s canes are reddish to purplish brown, lack the white, waxy bloom, and typically branch.

• The leaves are compound with 3–5 toothed leaflets per leaf. (The undersides of the leaflets are light green to almost silvery).

• The fruit is a compound drupe. When fully ripe, the black raspberry is purplish black to black and soft to the touch. When picked, it comes away cleanly from the receptacle on which it grew, leaving a thimble-like hollow. That helps distinguish it from blackberry, which retains its receptacle at the core.