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Rubus deliciosus
Also called Rocky Mountain Raspberry, Boulder Raspberry
Delicious raspberry is a North American deciduous shrub in the rose family, native to dry, rocky slopes in the Rocky Mountains. It is grown for its fragrant white flowers and as a hardy, low-maintenance native in sunny, well-drained spots.
Rubus deliciosus is a North American species of flowering plant in the rose family. Common names include the delicious raspberry, boulder raspberry, Rocky Mountain raspberry or snowy bramble.
Rubus deliciosus requires well drained soil in full sun. It is hardy to USDA zone #5 (-20 °F; -29 °C). It is propagated by cuttings in July or August.
It inhabits scrub and rocky slopes in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, New Mexico, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and Wyoming. There are also reports of isolated populations in the Texas Panhandle and in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rubus deliciosus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
