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Blackberry is green underside the leaf and raspberry is white
Oh the young leaves are fuzzy and crinkly mmmmm
Blackberry thorns are owy
Up there with rose thorns which hurt a lot
raspberries have thorns and-or finer hair-like spikes and the cultivars are less thorny I think and black cap raspberries have thorns but not fuzz.
Raspberry stems are a good place to see an example of plants producing wax, they are purple underneath the white wax and you can scape a bit off to see. I think blackberries might get wax on their stems too, not sure rn.
Oh the young leaves are fuzzy and crinkly mmmmm
Blackberry thorns are owy
Up there with rose thorns which hurt a lot
raspberries have thorns and-or finer hair-like spikes and the cultivars are less thorny I think and black cap raspberries have thorns but not fuzz.
Raspberry stems are a good place to see an example of plants producing wax, they are purple underneath the white wax and you can scape a bit off to see. I think blackberries might get wax on their stems too, not sure rn.
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You could gently investigate if they have runners between them on the surface or underground, like with a pick or a butter knife or something. But I agree we don’t need to dig them up, we can just wait for them to flower.
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Leaves not opposite
alternate?
Seeming to spiral 🌀
alternate?
Seeming to spiral 🌀
Aspalathus linearis, meaning "red bush", is a broom-like member of the plant family Fabaceae that grows in South Africa's fynbos.
We have related plants here and I am curious…. tho They are cousins not siblings so to speak, and I don’t just taste things I’m not sure of that belong to the pea family because it’s a mixed bag whether fabaceae (pea family plants) are safe to eat.
Both rooibos and scotch broom are in the pea family; they also share their bushy broom habit with ephedra species, which are in a different plant taxonomy galaxy altogether - they are gymnosperms like conifers!
The former two plants also look similar to forsythia, which is a bushy yellow-flowering shrub in the olive family.
(Gymnosperms do not produce fruit around their seeds. So, Ephedra does not have those fine yellow flowers, tho it is quite striking in appearance.
—> angiosperms, which make fruit around their seeds, include most of the plants we know! including trees and grasses. Yay plants that we eat!)
Plants are so cool.
We have related plants here and I am curious…. tho They are cousins not siblings so to speak, and I don’t just taste things I’m not sure of that belong to the pea family because it’s a mixed bag whether fabaceae (pea family plants) are safe to eat.
Both rooibos and scotch broom are in the pea family; they also share their bushy broom habit with ephedra species, which are in a different plant taxonomy galaxy altogether - they are gymnosperms like conifers!
The former two plants also look similar to forsythia, which is a bushy yellow-flowering shrub in the olive family.
(Gymnosperms do not produce fruit around their seeds. So, Ephedra does not have those fine yellow flowers, tho it is quite striking in appearance.
—> angiosperms, which make fruit around their seeds, include most of the plants we know! including trees and grasses. Yay plants that we eat!)
Plants are so cool.
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Stem Lemon balm has a square stem if you want to compare what they look and feel like Aromatic means it has essential oils and is smelly. Like the smell will cling to your fingers if you touch it a bit I’m so curious what this plant is Heee this is…