Anybody recognise this plant?

lstar337

Yeah, owner now thinks it could be a thornless blackberry.

It was in a pack of three strawberry plants bought from a DIY shed. 1 strawberry died, 1 lived, and the third plant turned out to be this.

Not the best luck for them.

Davesnave

My Chester is not like Dafty's Chester, but the old overwintered stems are quite dark. Rather ashamed of the chlorotic leaves and malformed fruit, but here it is:
http://imgur.com/a/YceQQ

Morrison's finest....£2 if I remember rightly!

Farway

lstar337 wrote: »

Yeah, owner now thinks it could be a thornless blackberry.

It was in a pack of three strawberry plants bought from a DIY shed. 1 strawberry died, 1 lived, and the third plant turned out to be this.

Not the best luck for them.

Told you so, post #4

DaftyDuck

Davesnave wrote: »

My Chester is not like Dafty's Chester, but the old overwintered stems are quite dark. Rather ashamed of the chlorotic leaves and malformed fruit, but here it is:
http://imgur.com/a/YceQQ

Morrison's finest....£2 if I remember rightly!

Mine is from a cutting this year, so very young. It's probably correctly labelled (unlike many, many other random pots spread around the farm) as this one came from the Head Gardener at the nearby Big House, and that gardener knows his stuff....

The stems do look darker in the flesh, as it were. I didn't take better photos, as mortar was cascading from my roof, and angry hornets were milling around. You can probably tell, the rebuild is starting!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

They're beggars for suckering. And the suckers are Evil, as they seem to want to have all the thorns of the smooth bits on them as well as the normal quantity.

Keep it in a big pot. (Never splash it with water, and, never, ever feed it after Midnight :cool: - yes, I loved watching Gremlins as a kid. Those suckers are a thousand times worse.)

Davesnave

Farway wrote: »

Told you so, post #4

You did, and none of us listened.....Well, I may have picked it up subliminally and that's what set me off on looking at rubus on Google.

lstar337

Farway wrote: »

Told you so, post #4

You did, but this is not confirmed.

It is the owner that thinks this, the same owner who thought it was a strawberry plant originally. Not a great source. :rotfl:

I appreciate your help though.