Purple Flowering Raspberry. Purple flowering raspberry rubus odoratus is one of my favorite summer flowering shrubs click photo below for an enlargement. The purple flowering raspberry or rubus odoratus is kind of the secret raspberry.
Rosy fragrant flowers are borne all summer long and followed by small flat raspberries that are adored by wildlife of all varieties. Fruit is a dry aggregate purplish red drupe that resembles a fuzzy flat raspberry. It is a deciduous shrub with canes that can grow to 6 feet tall and 12 feet across.
Rubus odoratus or purple flowering raspberry is a native deciduous perennial of eastern north america.
Rubus odoratus purple flowering raspberry 20 00 a thornless raspberry species with large vaguely star shaped velvety leaves and stunning rose like blooms. Purple flowering raspberry endangered indiana purple flowering raspberry threatened wetland status interpreting wetland status related links more accounts and images ars germplasm resources information network ruod calphotos ruod lady bird. The stems or branches are green initially with fine bristly glandular hair turning woody with age and dropping the hair. I have seen it growing naturally in some local woods but not very often.
