Acres of delicious sweet berries to gorge yourself on — what’s not to love? Well, maybe the giant, sharp thorns, wasps and fire hazard
Welcome to the jungle. I’m swatting away determined wasps while daintily picking blackberries for my grandkids. They wear little sun hats — the children, not the wasps — and are heavily gooped in Coppertone.
Oh, and look out for the bears, equipped as they are with protective fur coats and two thousand pounds of angry muscle, the better to eat all of the above, especially you.British Columbia is home to four varieties of blackberry: Himalayan blackberry , trailing blackberry , highbush blackberry and ARGGGHHH! blackberry .
The blackberry escaped cultivation and became an invasive species in most of the temperate world because it is so hard to contain. The Royal B.C. Museum notes the main spreader of the blackberry is people. Botanists, a green-coloured variety of scientist, typically describe the Himalayan blackberry as long and fulsome with a compound berry, and include other interesting botanical facts such as the fact that it is a perennial plant that bears biennial stems; the polygonal stem grows vigorously to a length of four to 10 metres; the leaves are palmately compound; and it’s completely covered in fearsome thorns up to 1.5 cm long.
Some people, such as people who like to grow species of plants without, say, fearsome thorns, consider blackberries to be the backyard equivalent of Russian soldiers in the Donbas. That is to say, not supposed to be there, and very costly to displace once they are.
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