Rubus species

Nepalese Raspberry, Rubus nepalensis

The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. A very well flavoured and reasonably sized raspberry with just a little sourness.

It generally fruits well in the garden, though there are some forms that produce very little fruit, or poorly shaped fruits.

A purple to dull blue dye is obtained from the fruit.

An excellent ground-cover plant, forming a quite effective weed-suppressing mulch.

Rubus calycinoides

The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.

This plant also makes a thickly matted carpet that is a very effective weed excluder.