Blackberry - Fruit Shrub - Rubus fruitcosus - 5 Seeds eggfruit Most are short-lived perennials

Most are short-lived perennials

Growing to 5m

and also because both their leaves and flowers are edible

The stalks are not jointed and stay on the plant when the fruit is picked

Blackberry - Fruit Shrub - Rubus fruitcosus - 5 Seeds eggfruit Most are short-lived perennialsCommon Blackberry. Blackberries are perennial plants which typically bear biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem, the primocane, grows vigorously to its full length of 36 m (in some cases, up to 9 m), arching or trailing along the ground and bearing large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the cane becomes a floricane and the stem