Rubus spp.
Blackberries are juicy, dark, and a little tannic. Cultivated and wild brambles both grow in the Northeast, with wild berries often having a more concentrated flavor.1
Connections
Blackberries are aggregate fruits made of many small drupelets. They are closely related to raspberries, though ripe blackberries keep their central core when picked.
Further notes
The fruit is not a botanical berry: each drupelet is a small fruit with its own seed, attached together on a single receptacle.1
Footnotes
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension, “Raspberries and Blackberries,” accessed July 17, 2026. ↩ ↩2