The Raspberry or Red Raspberry, (Rubus idaeus) is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit (not a true berry) in late summer or early autumn. The fruit is similar to that of the blackberry, but is smaller, softer, and of course a different colour. It grows typically in forest clearings or fields, particularly where fire or wood-cutting has produced open space for colonization by this opportunistic colonizer of disturbed soil. As a cultivated plant, it is easy to grow and has a tendency to spread unless cut back.
Two types are commercially available: the wild-type summer bearing, that produces an abundance of fruit on second-year canes within a relatively short period in midsummer, and double- or "ever"- bearing plants, which also bear a few fruit on first-year canes in the autumn, as well as the summer crop on second-year canes. Raspberries can be cultivated from USDA hardiness zones 9 to 4.
A golden Raspberry, which is pale yellow, has been selected by horticulturalists.
The black raspberry, also called a blackcap, is not the same plant, being a cultivar (usually) of Rubus occidentalis, a North American species. Several other non-cultivated Rubus species are also called raspberries.
Raspberry (Rubusidaeus is used for treating diarrhea as well as general detoxifier.
The use of herbal remedies, including the herb raspberry is classified as Rubusidaeus, are popular as an alternative to standard Western allopathic medicine for a variety of problems, including eye problems, tonic for the prostate gland, diarrhea as well as a detoxifier.
Rubusidaeus is an effective remedy for various ailments, and this natural holistic approach to health is becoming more and more popular, but should NOT replace conventional medicine or prescription drugs.
Rubus is a genus of plant in the Family Rosaceae, Subfamily Rosoideae.
These plants have prickles like roses and are often called brambles; this name is most often used for the flberry and similar fruits that are also of rambling habit, and not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes.
The genus Rubus is a very complex one, containing 13 subgenera, the largest of which, subgenus Rubus, is further subdivided into 12 sections:
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