Blackberry

This modest-sized shrub grows up to 2 feet (61.0 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 191 years old. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has several wide, crooked stems covered in hard, knobbly, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is white with black speckles.

The branches are short, rigid and upright that and are covered with handfuls of miniature, long, tapering, leaves with serrated edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of lime green that gradient shifts to aquamarine at the top, rigid and smooth.

In mid-summer it produces hundreds of medium-sized, orange blossoms with finger-like petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a delicate scent that smells like warm cookies.

In early winter small spherical fruits ripen. The hairy violet skin is peel-able and inedible, and the slightly crunchy amber flesh is sweet and oily. The slate seeds are tiny and are bunched at the bottom of the fruit.