I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
my question is how did they preserve the earlier stages long enough to still look good? i feel like i’ve never seen a blackberry bush with good looking flowers and fruit at the same time
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
I read an article several years ago that was arguing that blackberry plants should be classed as carnivores. The idea sounds absolutely absurd, but the more you squint at it, the more sense it makes. Blackberry bushes grow incredibly dense thickets of brambles, and those brambles snag and don’t let go easily. Shepherds in areas with blackberry bushes often have to rescue sheep that eat the blackberries and get stuck in the brambles. If they don’t get rescued, they’ll eventually die and decompose, thus adding a bunch of nitrogen and other useful chemicals to the soil which cause the plant to become larger and healthier.
So while they don’t actively kill creatures like the venus fly trap or pitcher plants, they do grow in a way that can trap and kill animals, and they benefit hugely from the nutrients those animals provide.
Fish don’t exist.
No, they do exist. It’s just that everything is fish.
Pretty cool concept, thanks for sharing.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
that picture is funky because it gives the impression there’s like 20 stages…there’s only 5 stages for the plant, with 2 of them being directly related to the berry. (yes I’m aware that the plant growth is related to berry growth…)
flowering, and fruiting. the rest is plant growth.
dammit i know it won’t be ripe for another month and a half and you’re gonna make me go check the berry bush
The shape of the final fruit leaves me unconvinced that its not a black raspberry.
Without leaves or an angle peering into the top from where the stem was removed, its basically impossible to confirm my suspicioms. But something in my gut says um, actually.
They are very closely related anyway. I have a few plants in my garden that are hybrids of raspberries and blackberries.
TIL weed is just blackberries.
