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Thimbleberry (crazypeople.online)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/nativeplantgardening@mander.xyz
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cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/21707244

We forgot that we bought one of these a few years back and just assumed it was totally wild. Looking back at our records we did plant one whip back in 2022 and it's no longer where we put it...so maybe it survived long enough to end up in some animals who then distributed them around the yard.

The pictured grouping is off the back deck.

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

This doesn't look like a thimbleberry, this looks like a black raspberry patch. I had a million patches of them around my house growing up and made tons of jam and pies from them. Thimbleberries are different, they're larger, softer, red when ripe and never black, grow on larger leafed plants, and grow further north.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Oh weird, I've never heard of the black caps being called thimbleberries before. I even looked at the wiki articles before I commented to be sure I wasn't making an idiot of myself 😭

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