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Red Raspberry
Red Raspberry
Rubus idaeus
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
10-20 yrs
Size
Medium
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
Europe and Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Runners
Defense
Spines
Status
Common

About

Red raspberry is a deciduous shrub whose fruits are aggregate drupelets that detach cleanly from their white core when ripe, leaving raspberries with their characteristic hollow centre. Each berry is made up of up to 100 tiny drupelets, each enclosing its own seed.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Rubus
Species
Rubus idaeus