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Rubus spectabilis
Salmonberry is a deciduous, thicket-forming bramble shrub native to the Pacific coast of North America, with yellow-orange or red berries resembling raspberries. It spreads by rhizomes and is highly invasive where it is not native, such as in Britain.
Rubus spectabilis, the salmonberry, is a species of bramble native to the west coast of North America. Its fruit is typically yellow-orange or red, resembling raspberries. The plant grows in the wild, and is not cultivated.
The plant is native to the west coast of North America from west-central Alaska to California, and inland as far as Idaho.
Salmonberries are edible plants. One field guide refers to the fruit as "diverse, from bright, fruity and citrusy to deep and earthy with spicy notes". Depending on ripeness and site, they are good eaten raw – whether red or golden – and processed into jam, candy, jelly and wine.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rubus spectabilis 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.
