Rubus Caesius

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Rubus Caesius

The dewberry is a fine tasting fruit. You'll find it spreading along open ground, rapidly colonising railway embankments and the like. The only problem is that when the berries are ripe they're hard to pick in any quantity without squashing them, so I personally tend to eat them as I pick them.

The berry itself looks very like a blackberry, but you rarely find them with as many drupelets (the individual berries) as you get on blackberries. The main difference in the berry is that it's somewhat powdery in appearance, having the same mustiness as you get on a grape or a plum.

Some people reccomend cutting the berry on the stem and freezing it, to be used like a cherry in a drink.

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Rubus Caesius

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