On Fri, 05 May 2017 22:03:32 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Mon, 1 May 2017 17:58:24 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> says...
>> >
>> > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:22:59 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu 27 Apr 2017 01:52:14p, sf told us...
>> > >
>> > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 05:40:42 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >> In the US it's fairly common for (earlier generations) to being
>> > > >> caught in the brambles, but they always pick "blackberries". :-)
>> > > >
>> > > > For me as a kid, it was the gol durned briar patch. Don't recall
>> > > > brambles, just briars.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Heh, that's a bramble bush! :_)
>> >
>> > I don't recall berries ever!
>>
>> This is what we pick
>>
>> https://tinyurl.com/l6g58lz
>>
>> They grow wild everywhere and are easy to collect; our grandchildren
>> love to go blackberrying. Last autumn they made blackberry pie, apple
>> and blackberry Eve's pudding, and also had raw blackberries on yoghurt
>> and on porridge. Lots of vitamin C
>>
>> Janet UK
>
>Oh, I know full well what blackberries look like - they are a constant
>weed in my yard.

In Tasmania everybody was always cursing the omnipresent blackberry
weeds, but at the same time supermarkets were selling blackberries for
$5 a punnet.

On 2017-05-06 1:03 AM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2017 17:58:24 +0100, Janet > wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/l6g58lz
>>
>> They grow wild everywhere and are easy to collect; our grandchildren
>> love to go blackberrying. Last autumn they made blackberry pie, apple
>> and blackberry Eve's pudding, and also had raw blackberries on yoghurt
>> and on porridge. Lots of vitamin C
>>
>> Janet UK
>
> Oh, I know full well what blackberries look like - they are a constant
> weed in my yard. I'm just saying that the briars by my childhood
> house in Michigan had no redeeming value to them... no berries
> what-so-ever. There are thorny plants that don't produce berries and
> that briar patch was one of them. Don't ask me what it was, because I
> don't know. I can only tell you what is wasn't.


I think I know what you are talking about. There several types of
thorny pain in the ass plants that grow wild around here. There are
blackberries with a reddish coloured cane and small barbs. They are
unpleasant to the touch, but not really dangerous. Then there are the
blackberries, which have a slightly ribbed cane and larger, sharper
canes. Then there is something similar to the blackberry. They have a
similar shape of cane, but they never seem to bear fruit. The ribs in
the cane are more pronounced and the barbs are longer and sharper.

I am constantly waging war with the wild roses back there. They are
downright invasive. I like to cut back the brush on the trails, but
cutting back roses just seems to make them grow more.

On Sat, 6 May 2017 09:10:58 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> Then there is something similar to the blackberry. They have a
> similar shape of cane, but they never seem to bear fruit. The ribs in
> the cane are more pronounced and the barbs are longer and sharper.

That sounds like it, thanks. I was little, the briar patch was big
and those thorns were spikes.


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