blackberries

n. type of wild trailing shrub; edible black or dark purple fruit of the blackberry bush

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The blackberries (singular, blackberry; genus Rubus, subgenus Eubatus; also called bramble or occasionally "bramble raspberry") are a widespread and well known group of several hundred closely related apomictic microspecies, native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere.They are perennial plants which typically bear biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem grows vigorously to its full length of 3-6 m, arching or trailing along the ground and bearing large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the stem does not grow longer, but produces several side shoots, which bear smaller leaves with three or five leaflets. Both first and second year shoots are usually spiny, usually with numerous short curved very sharp spines (spineless plants also occur). The flowers are produced in late spring and early summer on short racemes on the tips of these side shoots, each flower about 2 cm diameter with five white or pale pink petals. The new primocane fruiting blackberries flower and fruit on the new growth. The fruit, in botanical terminology, is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets ripening to a black or dark purple fruit, the "blackberry". Unmanaged mature plants form a tangle of dense arching stems, the branches rooting from the node tip when they reach the ground. They are very vigorous, growing at fast rates in woods, scrub, hillsides and hedgerows, covering large areas in a relatively short time. It will tolerate poor soil, and is an early colonist of wasteland and building sites.
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Noun
1. large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
(hypernym) berry
(part-holonym) true blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
2. bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
(synonym) blackberry bush
(hypernym) bramble bush
(hyponym) true blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
Verb
1. pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying"
(hypernym) berry

To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky. Eating them denotes losses.
  

Amount per 100g:
• Calories.......................52
• Total Fat......................0 g
• Saturated Fat.................0 g
• Cholesterol..................0 mg
• Sodium........................0 mg
• Total Carbohydrate......13 g
• Dietary Fiber...................5 g
• Protein.........................1 g Vitamin A  165 IU   Vitamin C  21 mg
 Calcium    32 mg    Iron         1 mg