Fruit

Raspberry

Rubus idaeus L. · wild raspberry, red raspberry · Polish: Malina właściwa

Edible

Photo: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

How to identify it

Canes upright, arching over, covered in small prickles.
Leaves compound, white and felty-hairy underneath.
White, drooping flowers (May–August).
Red aggregate fruit that, when ripe, comes away easily from the conical receptacle (unlike the blackberry) — leaving it ‘hollow inside’.

Where it grows

Woodland, scrub, tall-herb vegetation, clear-felled areas and clearings, slopes.

In the kitchen and the home medicine cabinet

Fresh and for preserving: juices, jams, preserves; dried fruit and leaves for infusions.

Caution Wild raspberries are sometimes wormy — check them and wash them. Raspberries cause allergies in some people. In the forest, pick by hand; picking is prohibited in national parks and nature reserves.