This shrub has a scrambling prickly arching stems that form a compact rounded habit. It has divided leaves with 3-deep green leaflets and the white saucer-shaped flowers appear during summer followed by purplish-black succulent fruit.

Hardiness zones 5 to 10

Rubus fruticosus is naturally found in northern Europe growing in well drained fertile moist sandy to clay solis in an open sunny position and is frost and drought tolerant. 

Blackberry is grown for its scrambling habit and its fruit. It is grown in fences or over low walls and as a rounded shrub in an open area. It is also an invasive plant that appears on disturbed land and along creek beds and is regarded as noxious in some regions. 

It can tolerate most conditions and establishes in 1-2 years and  is long lived. it is moderately deer resistant and cultivars of this species are grown for the fruit or foliage. ID 811

Rubus (RUB-us) fruticosus (fruit-ee-KO-sus)

Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee)
Rose Family